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CONTENTS
A blessed character
Good news for kohanim and sci-
ence fiction fans.
The latest version of the Unicode
Standard, which codifies the alpha-
bets recognized by computers, was
released last week.
Unicode 7.0 includes the gesture
of a raised hand that shows a gap
between the middle and ring fingers.
Thats the gesture Jewish priests have
used to bless congregations since
who-knows-when.
The symbol was popularized by
its repurposing on Star Trek as the
Vulcan salute. No doubt that it was
the Star Trek tribe, not the tribe of
Aaron, that led to the symbols inclu-
sion among 250 new emoji, or pic-
turegrams, that eventually will make
their way to smartphones around the
world.
The less reverential symbol of a
hand with middle finger extended is
also included among the new emoji.
The Unicode update also added the
currency symbol for the ruble and an
undecoded writing system from an-
cient Crete, dubbed Linear A.
Hebrew has been included in Uni-
code since its beginning; the trope
notations used for chanting the Torah
were added in version 2.0, back in
1996.
LARRY YUDELSON
Candlelighting: Friday, June 20, 8:13 p.m.
Shabbat ends: Saturday, June 21, 9:22 p.m.
Baby, you were born to bid for this
Max Weinberg, the
drummer for Bruce
Springsteens E Street
Band, is donating a
weeks stay at his private
villa in Tuscany to an up-
coming fundraising auc-
tion for Temple Sharey
Tefilo-Israel in South
Orange.
Weinberg, who be-
came a bar mitzvah at
the synagogue in 1964,
will be at its June 21
fundraiser, Magic in the
Night, where he will be
guest auctioneer. Thats
according to Back-
streets, a leading Spring-
steen fan site.
Weinberg and his wife, Becky, are
honoring their parents and Maxs
grandparents, who were founding
members of Temple Sharey Tefilo
when it was in East Orange.
The fundraiser will include pre-
auction bidding online. The highest
online bid will become the opening
bid at the live on-site auction. The
event is open to the public; fans
who are interested in being there or
bidding remotely can email Leslie
Sporn at lsporn@tstinj.org to obtain
tickets or arrange proxy bidding.
Weinberg also is Conan OBriens
bandleader.
NEW JERSEY JEWISH NEWS
Israeli army tags recruits
with new social media rules
The Israel Defense Force has a new
status message for its soldiers: Youre
in the army now.
From now on, Israeli recruits will
receive the armys social media policy
along with their uniforms and their
guns.
The new rules will explain that
The dangers of using social media
relate to privacy infringement and
the possibility of addiction as well as
the blurring of boundaries between
private and public and military and
civilian, according to the Israel news
site Ynet.
Soldiers will be told that before
they post, or even click like, they
must ask whether content will harm
individual security, intelligence secu-
rity, or the IDFs promoted values.
Soldiers will not be allowed to post
a check-in status from their bases.
Commanders will be banned from
posting orders through social media,
including WhatsApp, or from ask-
ing their soldiers to friend them on
Facebook.
LARRY YUDELSON
OPIONION
Of course Jews do not have a
monopoly on guilt, but we do have
our own particular brand of it.
Lance Strate, p. 20
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Im more Jewish than you think I am.
Texas Governor Rick Perry, speaking to New York Times correspondent Mark
Leibovitch at a Jewish-style deli. I read the part of the Bible that said the Jews
are Gods chosen people, Perry added, before blessing his corned beef and
swiss cheese sandwich.
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of making sure that
everyone knows and is
affected by the story.
LEE SHAPIRO, a New
Jersey native who now
lives in Hackensack, is
not in the film. He joined
the band in 1974, when
he was 19 years old, as
an arranger, keyboardist,
and back-up singer, and
he was with the group
as it had its second burst
of fame in the mid-70s
(Oh, What a Night and
others). A full profile of
Shapiro will appear in the
next issue of the Stan-
dard.
ERIC DANE, 41, is
best known for play-
ing the sexy Dr. Mark
McSteamy Sloan on
Greys Anatomy. He co-
stars in a new TNT series,
The Last Ship, which is
set to premiere on Sun-
day, June 22, at 9 p.m.
Heres the official syn-
opsis: Their mission is
simple: Find a cure. Stop
the virus. Save the world.
When a global pandemic
wipes out eighty percent
of the planets popula-
tion, the crew of a lone
naval destroyer must find
a way to pull humanity
from the brink of extinc-
tion.
Dane, who plays the
commanding officer of
the last ship, is the son
of a Jewish mother and
non-Jewish father. While
he was raised with not
much religion, he did
have a bar mitzvah. Last
Ship, by the way, is one
of those on trial TNT
series. Only 10 episodes
have been filmed. If it
does well, it will return
for a longer season
sometime next year. If
ratings are weak, Dane
and his co-stars will not
go to sea again. N.B
Marshall Brickman
JERSEY BOYS:
Is Clint in tune
with the sound?
Rick Elice
Erich Bergen Eric Dane
The film version of
the big stage hit mu-
sical Jersey Boys,
about the lives and
careers of the members
of the famous 1960s
pop/rock singing group,
The Four Seasons,
opens on Friday, June
20. I hope that Clint
Eastwood, 84, confounds
pundits who claim he
was an odd and probably
not-right choice to direct
this film.
Like the stage musical,
the Jersey Boys movie
features the many hits
of the Four Seasons,
all of which were written
by band member Bob
Gaudio and Bob Crewe.
What helped make the
stage musical so special
was its great script, co-
written by MARSHALL
BRICKMAN, now 79,
and RICK ELICE, now
57. They interviewed the
band members exten-
sively, and from those
interviews they crafted a
truly dramatic story that
earned the duo a Tony
for best book. They also
wrote the films screen-
play.
Brickman is a virtually
unknown renaissance
man. In addition to his
Tony, he has an Oscar,
too, for co-writing An-
nie Hall with WOODY
ALLEN. He could relate
to the members of the
Four Seasons because
in 1962, at just about
the time that band be-
gan and was playing
clubs, Brickman was in a
popular folk group, the
Tarriers, playing banjo
with ERIC WEISSBERG,
now 74. (Weissberg is
best known for his 1972
instrumental banjo hit,
the theme from Deliver-
ance.) On top of all this,
Brickman has written for
TV and has penned ac-
claimed comic parodies
for The New Yorker.
None of the real-life
Four Seasons members
were/are Jewish. How-
ever, ERICH BERGEN, 28,
who played Gaudio in
a touring version of the
stage musical, reprises
this role in the film. This
is the first big screen
role for the tall, dark, and
handsome thespian. His
parents met at a New
York acting class.
In 2011, the Jewish
Journal of Los Ange-
les reported that Ber-
gen, the son of a Jew-
ish father and a lapsed
Catholic mother, identi-
fied strongly as Jewish.
The Journal then quoted
Bergen as he explained
how the drama of the
Passover seder was like
a classic theater play. He
said: Were all in one
room together witness-
ing something that peo-
ple for many years have
done before us. We are
not new to this story, but
we are experiencing it for
the first time together.
To me, thats what Ive
found in the Jewish reli-
gion: that the tradition of
keeping the story going
is whats most important
I am contractually
obligated not to tell
people to buzz off
So said BURT SHAVITZ, 74, the co-founder and face
of Burts Bees, the famous cosmetics company based
on products derived mostly from honey and beeswax.
Shavitz was talking to JODY SHAPIRO, 44, a Canadian
Jewish ilmmaker who made a documentary about him,
Burts Buzz, which is now playing in a few theaters
and has just been released for on-demand and Netflix
viewing.
I could devote a whole column to what a character
Shavitz is. Indeed, a whole ilm is dedicated to that
very subject, as are easily found long online proiles. So
watch the ilm to ind out how the Great Neck-raised son
of a factory worker, who began as a photographer for
a Jewish paper, ended up keeping bees in rural Maine,
and became a reluctant cosmetics mogul. You can even
watch Shavitz as he travels to Taiwan, where thousands
including hundreds of kids in bee costumes turn out
to greet the most famous beekeeper in the world.
N.B.
Burt Shavitz
California-based Nate Bloom can be reached at
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Bringing Fort Lee to life
About to make aliyah, Young Israels Rabbi Neil Winkler looks back and ahead
JOANNE PALMER
R
abbi Neil Winklers grandfa-
ther, like his son and grandson,
was a builder.
Disabled by a missing leg,
the result of a bombing strike over World
War I London, he was not able to work,
but his creativity, his passion for making
something where there had been nothing,
did not leave him. He was a carpenter, so
he crafted a model of a synagogue. He hid
metal tubes inside the wood, threaded
wire through them, and screwed in tiny
light bulbs, so his shul lit up.
His grandson also created a synagogue,
although his is not a model but a full-size,
living version.
Now, as Rabbi Winkler is about to retire
from his pulpit at the Young Israel of Fort
Lee, and from his position as teacher
and coordinator of Tanach studies at the
Moriah School in Englewood, he looks
with satisfaction at the arc of a career that
brings him and his wife, Andrea, to a new
adventure as they plan their long-yearned-
for aliyah to Israel.
Neil Winkler was born in the Bronx in
1948. His father, Kalman, was a founder
of the shul across the street from where
they lived the Young Israel of Parkches-
ter and his mother, Helen, grew up on
Long Island, in a family active in the Young
Israel of North Bellmore. Kalman Winkler
and Helen Rosenblum met at the Young
Israel of Bronx Gardens. Synagogues in
general and Young Israel-affiliated syna-
gogues in particular were as essential as
air in the Winklers household.
His grandfather and grandmother lived
with the family; his grandfathers family
had emigrated from Austria to London
to Canada and then, finally, to the Bronx.
Among Rabbi Winklers earliest memories
is being asked to get Zeydes wooden leg
from the closet.
Kalman Winkler, a craftsman like his
own father, worked in fabric rather than
wood. He was a pattern-maker and pro-
duction manager at high-end clothing
manufacturers, including B. H. Wragge,
and he taught at the Fashion Institute of
Technology. He would tell his children
about working with Jackie Kennedy and
with Lyndon Johnsons daughters, who
preferred not to shop in public.
All the Winkler children took the long
trip south from the Bronx to Manhattans
Upper East Side to go to elementary school
at Ramaz. My mother was very insistent
that we all get a very strong education, both
secular and Hebrew, Rabbi Winkler said.
We would go by train; wed take the IRT
right down from 176th Street in Parkches-
ter. Between his siblings, his cousins, and
other local children, a little tribe traveled
back and forth together from school.
Because his father wanted him to have
a more intensive immersion in Jewish
texts, Rabbi Winkler transferred to MTA,
Yeshiva Universitys high school for boys,
in eighth grade, and from there he went to
Yeshiva College.
It was not until his third year that Neil
Winkler realized that he wanted to be a
rabbi. He majored in history, but I real-
ized that I wanted to serve people, and
I felt that I might be able to do that as a
rabbi. I have a passionate love of the Jew-
ish nation, and I wanted to serve as best
I could, and to work with people one on
one.
(It is notable that the word passion
comes up frequently in a conversation
with Rabbi Winkler, always to describe
his work in the pulpit or at school. Talking
about his work animates him.)
Rabbi Winkler graduated from Yeshiva
College in 1969, and then earned both a
masters in biblical studies at YUs Bernard
Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies and
his ordination at its rabbinical school, the
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary,
in 1972. Next came a year at the Golf Manor
Synagogue in suburban Cincinnati and
two years at Anshe Emet in Trenton, and
then Rabbi Winkler and his growing family
moved to Lawrenceville, where he founded
that towns Young Israel community.
In 1978, the Winklers moved to Fort
Lee, where he took over the Fort Lee
Synagogue. Within a year I changed the
name to the Young Israel of Fort Lee, and
we joined the Young Israel movement,
Rabbi Winkler said. We have been here
ever since.
Rabbi Winkler provides his shul with
full service. Not only does he do the work
that a rabbi always does giving sermons;
counseling congregants; teaching, both
formally and informally; presiding over
life-cycle events, and providing a role
model for living a Jewish life he also
does all his communitys Torah and haf-
tarah reading, and when a cantorial voice
is necessary he provides that as well.
A rabbi has to be a conductor, Rabbi
Winkler said. He has to know how every
instrument works, but mainly he has to put
them together and have them harmonize.
For 36 years, people here havent only
had a conductor. They also have a one-
man band.
(Rabbi Winkler has some training as
a singer, and one of his most moving
memories is of having been in the choir,
under the baton of Zubin Mehta, when
Beethovens Ninth Symphony was per-
formed, for the first time, in Israel. The
lyrics were sung in German. It was power-
ful, he recalls.)
About his family Neil Winkler and
Andrea Nierenberg met at Camp Massad,
and they married in 1971. Andrea Winkler
is the daughter of extraordinary parents.
Her father, Dr. Harold Nirenberg, put him-
self through college after he got married,
and then he went on to earn a Ph.D. He
was the dean first of the law school and
then of the business school at C. W. Post
College. And then he decided that he
wanted to get back to the Jewish commu-
nity, so he became dean of YUs Sy Syms
School of Business, Rabbi Winkler said.
He revolutionized the school. His wife,
Laura, was an interior decorator.
Rabbi Winkler is clear about the fact that
he could not have been the kind of rabbi
he is if it were not for his wife. Some of
her accomplishments are quantifiable.
She started a tehillim group where
women come together every week to
recite Psalms, as a way to heal the worlds
wounds she is a founding member of
Project S.A.R.A.H. a group that works
with and for Jewish victims of domestic
abuse she is an adviser and is intimately
involved with the Fort Lee mikvah. She
organized the sisterhood, and she orga-
nized the first Purim fundraiser, which
helped double the shuls membership the
first year the family arrived in Fort Lee.
She does everything a rebbitzin does
and what doesnt a rebbitzin do? her hus-
band said.
Aside from keeping the rabbi calm, she
keeps an open house all the time. Every
year we used to host the entire synagogue
in our sukkah, and she baked everything
eight to ten cakes, seven different kugels,
and chulent for everybody.
Rabbi Neil Winkler marched with the contingent from the Moriah School in the
Celebrate Israel parade this month.
My mother was
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that we all get
a very strong
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secular and
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So much that she did I got the credit
for, he added. Very few people realize
how much she did for the shul. And then,
of course, there were all those times when
I couldnt get home, and she took care of
the kids. And she just sort of shrugs her
shoulders and says, Thats how it is.
She is really remarkable.
There were many times when his wife
had to host, at the absolute last minute,
families who were stranded in Fort Lee,
the victims of traffic or weather, as Shab-
bat was about to start.
But one of those Shabbat rescues could
have happened only in Fort Lee. A Jewish
man was trying to make it across the bridge,
but he could not. Ice was falling from the
tops of the towers. He was marooned until
the Winklers swooped in for the save.
The Winklers have five children Shira
Ashendorf, Tsippi Cantor, and Malkie,
Yehoshua, and Ely Winkler; three chil-
dren-in-law, Michael Ashendorf, Michael
Cantor, and Rachel Winkler, and nine
grandchildren.
Being part of a rabbinic family isnt
easy, Rabbi Winkler said. Although other
parts of Bergen County are bursting with
the young children of observant fami-
lies, Fort Lee isnt now and wasnt then.
That was hard on his children, he said;
although he tried to arrange for them to
spend many Shabbatot at their friends
houses, and encouraged them to invite
their friends to stay with them as well,
that was not the same as having a commu-
nity of their peers within walking distance.
Giving up that community was a sacrifice
that his children made for him and for the
Young Israel of Fort Lee, he said.
Just as Rabbi Winkler spent 36 years
heading his shul, he also spent those same
36 years teaching at Moriah. He first began
to teach when he was in Lawrenceville,
because he needed to earn more money
than the small congregation could afford
to pay him. Very quickly, though, he
learned that he loved teaching children.
I love being around young people, he
said.
I look back at thousands of students I
have taught. Many of them are in the rab-
binate or in Jewish education. It is more
than satisfying.
Over the years, I have been coach for
the National Bible Contest, he added.
I have been fortunate enough to have
coached about 30 champions, who went
to the national. About five years ago, the
top two from the diaspora in the interna-
tional contest in Israel were my students.
Both were from Teaneck.
Also about five years ago, Rabbi Winkler
took a sabbatical; he used the time to write
a book, Bringing the Prophets to Life. He
is passionate about the book, as he is about
everything he loves. It never would have
happened if I hadnt gone into teaching, he
said. He taught the same subject Tanach
every year, but instead of growing bored,
he discovered new insights, new angles,
new understandings, every time he taught
it. I see those new things because it is alive
to me, he said. It gives me such joy.
If I ever could meet a biblical character,
I would want it to be King David, Rabbi
Winkler said. He was so real, so human,
so touchable.
Rabbi Winkler does not think that he
will write another book; all the passion of
his teaching was distilled into this one. He
used a quotation from Kohelet Ecclesias-
tes in the preface to Bringing the Proph-
ets to Life. Do not write an endless num-
ber of books, Kohelet 12:12 tells us. He will
not, Rabbi Winkler says.
As he sits in Young Israels newly rebuilt
synagogue, the ceiling arching high and
white above the light-drenched room,
Rabbi Winkler talks about the synagogue
that he loves. He is leaving it as it is ready
to transition to its next stage of life, he
said; he is leaving it with love and hope.
The past is meant to inspire and teach
us, he said. It is not meant for us to wal-
low in.
I am not retiring; I am not moving to
Israel because it will be easier to bury me if
Im there already. I see a challenge ahead.
Every year for the last 10 years we have
spent in Israel, and it is very hard to come
back.
The only way to leave always is to look
forward at what is facing us.
Rabbi Neil Winklers grandfather
carved this etrog box.
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LARRY YUDELSON
A
n effort to build a Holocaust
memorial in Teaneck is headed
back to the town council.
Last year, Steve Fox, co-
chairman of the Teaneck Holocaust Com-
memoration Committee, part of the town-
ships Jewish Community Council, asked
the Teaneck Town Council for permission
to investigate putting a Holocaust memo-
rial in the towns Andreas Park. The coun-
cil granted permission for preliminary dis-
cussions. But a title search revealed that
the land was deeded to the town only for
the purpose of recreation.
Now, Mr. Fox plans to appear before the
council on Tuesday to ask that space in the
towns Clarence W. Brett Park be allotted
for a memorial, which would be funded by
private donations.
Brett Park is on the west side of River
Road, just north of the towns recycling
center, opposite Downing Street and Win-
throp Road. It backs on to the Hackensack
River.
At this point, the memorial has no bud-
get and no fixed design.
We are planning an above-ground
memorial that people will be able to see
from the street, to stimulate discussion,
Mr. Fox said.
We certainly believe among the survi-
vors and second generation, there are a
lot of people who will be kind enough to
donate to this kind of thing, he said.
He expects to come up with designs
contingent on fundraising. We will prob-
ably come up with a plan A, plan B, plan
C in terms of designs and costs, he said.
He said he estimated that the cost would
be between $50,000 and $250,000.
The Brett Park plans will be simpler and
less expensive than the proposal offered
last March for Andreas Park. Mr. Fox had
sought to turn an unused boathouse there
into a Holocaust educational center.
One piece of the previous plan that
would continue in Brett Park: The chance
for donors to dedicate bricks or other
pieces of the memorial to relatives who
died in the Holocaust.
Like many members of committee plan-
ning the memorial, Mr. Fox is the child of
a survivor. His father escaped the Warsaw
Ghetto and hid in the woods, fighting the
Nazis with the partisan underground.
All of us feel an obligation to the victims
and the survivors of the Holocaust to per-
petuate the memory of the Shoah and con-
tinue to educate future generations so that
it will never happen again, he said.
People say to me, this is Teaneck, we
dont need something to remind us of the
Holocaust, but Holocaust awareness is
diminishing every year. The time is now.
Mr. Fox asked Rabbi Steven Burg, who
heads the New York office of the Los
Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Cen-
ter, to join him in addressing the Teaneck
council on Tuesday.
Rabbi Burg will talk about the global
push to erect and put up memorials
while there are still people who can tell
the story.
Rabbi Burg lives in Bergenfield, only a
couple blocks from the Teaneck border.
I happen to think a park is the right
place for a Holocaust memorial. Thats
where kids are. These memorials are a
constant reminder to be vigilant against
hate and intolerance and bullying and all
of these terrible things, Rabbi Burg said.
Named for former Teaneck Mayor Clar-
ence W. Brett, Brett Park today features
a small parking lot, a place to play soc-
cer, and woods. In the 19th century, mel-
ons and vegetables were grown there, on
manure imported from stables in Manhat-
tan. At the turn of the century, a resort,
Bensens Campground, opened. Set by the
river, the campground offered nine bun-
galows. In the 1920s, Teaneck opened a
sewage plant that dumped into the river,
making it unpleasant to swim in the Hack-
ensack and so dooming the resort. Farm-
ing continued on part of the property until
around 1961, when its owner, John Rekow,
died.
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Alpine producer talks about winning a Tony
JOANNE PALMER
W
endy Federman of Alpine
was one of the team of
producers whose play,
All the Way, starring
Brian Cranston, won this years Tony for
best play.
So what exactly is a producer, and why
did she become one?
Why? That questions easy.
Her family background pulled her to
the theater.
You know the Haunted Mansion in
Disneyworld?
Its a creepy old house, oddly placed
in the Florida sunshine; the line to get
in worms through a faux graveyard with
faux-funny tombstones. Once you get
in your guide ominously intones the
instruction that you stand in the dead
center of the room the doors whine
and then slam closed, the southern light
is replaced with crepuscular shadows,
and a voice from an unseen source starts
to talk.
Welcome, foolish mortals, to the
Haunted Mansion, it says, as the room dips
and the paintings on the walls grow long.
Whos behi nd the di sembodi ed,
authoritative, spooky voice?
Its Ms. Federmans uncle, Paul Frees.
A successful voice actor, Mr. Frees cre-
ated the soundtracks for other Disney
attractions as well; it is Mr. Freess blood-
curdling bass telling visitors to the Pirates
of the Caribbean that dead men tell no
tales. He also provided the ho ho hos
for the Jolly Green Giant and the squeaks
for the Pillsbury Doughboy. Most amaz-
ingly and improbably, he also was the
voice that came out of Tony Curtiss stun-
ningly made up lips as Mr. Curtiss char-
acter, Joe, cross-dresses as Josephine.
(Mr. Curtis, the story goes, could not
maintain the falsetto long enough. Mr.
Frees could.)
Her mother was a radio and television
actress until she retired to Scarsdale to
have children, Ms. Federman said, and
her aunt, Joy Frees, became a well-known
vocal coach.
But Ms. Federman at first took after her
fathers side of the family, joining him in
the manufacture and global import of
wholesale and craft ribbon. She moved
to Alpine in 1989 and sent her children to
school locally; the family belongs to Cha-
vurat Beth Shalom in Alpine. She worked
locally too; she became a biofeedback
therapist, and then opened three centers
for biofeedback. That kept her busy.
But the theater was in her blood. How
to return to it?
First, she became an investor. I got to
know people, and to learn what I like and
what I dont like, she said. On every
show, you learn something from every-
one you work with. And I have so much
more to learn it never ends.
Becoming a producer was the logical
next step.
How to define the job? Thats not easy,
because there are so many ways to do it.
The first obligation is the most obvious
you have to help provide the financ-
ing any production needs. Beyond that,
you do everything, she said. You are
interacting with the creative team: with
the directors and actors if its a musical,
with the musicians; with your marketing
team to make sure that its being mar-
keted correctly.
You are the shows number one
cheerleader.
There are many levels of producers,
she added. There are the ones who con-
tribute money and little else. They are
wonderful, and we need them they
write a check and say Ill see you on
opening night. But I prefer being hands
on.
The more active producers do the
myriad jobs that must be done but have
no one specifically designated to do
them. I have cooked and made food for
actors, she said. There was an actress
who came from London, who thought
that March in New York was springtime.
She came without a coat, in flats with no
socks. Ms. Federman soon sorted that
out. I ran and got her a robe she came
from the shower with just a towel and
a coat, she said.
Once you start as a producer, you also
watch more seasoned veterans care-
fully, and you learn. Eventually, if you
are good, you are asked to be part of the
team of lead producers; beyond that is
the major responsibility of becoming a
general partner.
A musical can cost $5 million on the
cheap side, and easily go to $10 million
or more, she said.
Although nonprofit theaters such as
Lincoln Center and Roundabout need
fewer producers, because theatrical pro-
ductions have become so extraordinarily
expensive there can be seven or eight to
a show.
Every show is its own little business
entity, Ms. Federman continued. Every
show is entirely different.
Different shows have different vibes.
Some actors are warmer and fuzzier than
others. Bryan Cranston who went from a
terrifying turn on Breaking Bad to a dif-
ferently terrifying Lyndon Baines Johnson
has to be the sweetest, funniest, most
generous actor.
Wendy Federman and her daughter, Heather, celebrate at the Tony award
celebration.
Wendy Federman is a producer of All The Way, which won the Tony for
best play.
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The Tony she won two weeks ago for All The
Way is her third; the other two were for revivals of
Pippin and Hair. She also has won a number of
other awards, including Drama Desk, Drama League,
and Outer Critics Circle.
Pippin is a very physical show, with a lot of
Cirque du Soleil kind of movements, Ms. Federman
said. A lot of acrobatics. And there is no net under
these people. There are no do-overs. It is a real thing.
Some of the performers come from circus families.
I have always tried to look for things that say some-
thing positive, that bring a certain message across,
she said. And we employ dozens if not hundreds of
people every week. We are doing good work.
Ms. Federmans involvement with the theater goes
beyond the shows she is producing. There is just so
much creativity around, she said. So much has to
happen so fast and so seamlessly, and it is so won-
derful when it does all work. I know that were not
doing brain surgery here, but it is really hard to do
and a wonderful thing to watch.
Ms. Federman is a Tony voter, and she takes that
responsibility seriously. Beyond that, she adores
lives theater so during her down time she treks all
over the city, finding small productions, watching,
taking notes, paying attention.
She is now working on bringing both Bull Dur-
ham and You Cant Take It With You to Broadway.
Bull Durham is a play based on the 1988 movie,
and You Cant Take It With You is a revival of the
classic play by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart.
(The late Moss Hart is undergoing his own revival;
the critically acclaimed Act One, now on Broad-
way, is based on his memoir.)
When Ms. Federman won the Tony for All The
Way, she already was a veteran at accepting awards.
She had learned the hard way that when you go
up onstage in front of an audience, you dont want
to carry your handbag. (Except, of course, if you are
Queen Elizabeth.) She goes to the presentations with
her daughter, who ends up holding the bag. Literally.
She looks at me, and she says, take your lipstick.
Give me your bag. Give me the phone. And then Ms.
Federman climbs up onto the stage. Winning its
the icing on the cake, she said.
To find out more about Ms. Federman, go to her
website. Its named in memory of her uncles most
well-loved lines foolishmortalsproductions.com.
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Topol and Yehoram Gaon and me
Our film reviewer meets two legends of Israeli cinema
ERIC A. GOLDMAN
I
t is not every week that two legends of the Israeli cin-
ema come to town.
Last Monday, Topol was at Town Hall in Manhattan
for Raising the Roof, the National Yiddish Theater-
Folksbienes tribute to fifty years of Fiddler on the Roof,
honoring lyricist Sheldon Harnick. (The Jewish Standard ran
a preview of this performance on May 16. The Folksbienes
artistic director, Zalmen Mlotek, lives in Teaneck.)
The 78 year-old Topol is known for his portrayal of Tevye
in Norman Jewisons 1971 film adaptation of the stage classic.
On stage on Monday, Topol sang an a cappella version of If
I Were a Rich Man. The rendition held the audience spell-
bound. It was absolutely brilliant.
Others appearing at the wonderful gala event were many
of the actors who played a variety of roles in various film
and stage versions of Fiddler. (There also were some inevi-
table disappointments. The films director, Mr. Jewison, and
Bel Kaufman, the 103-year-old granddaughter of Sholem
Aleichem, who wrote the Tevye stories, were set to appear
as well. But Ms. Kaufman took a fall a week before the show,
and Mr. Jewisons flight never made it out of Los Angeles. They
were missed.)
Three days later, at the opening of the JCC of Manhattans
Israel Film Festival, Yehoram Gaon was honored for lifetime
achievement in Israeli cinema. The renowned vocalist has
acted in many Israeli movies, and he has produced musical
film documentaries that have warmed the hearts of Israelis
and Jews across the world these last 40 years. After being
introduced by Academy-Award nominated director Joseph
Cedar, the 74 year-old Mr. Gaon told the audience that the
occasion truly was special. In Israel, he said, artists generally
are recognized only when they are being eulogized.
Mr. Gaon admitted that he initially refused Mr. Cedars
request to take a small role in a 2004 film, Campfire,
but was convinced when the director sent him a bouquet
of flowers, along with a note that said that some famous
actors, like Frank Sinatra, had achieved greatness in their
smaller film roles. Mr. Cedar noted that Yehoram Gaon
represented the collective identity of a nation. I totally
agree with that statement.
Both Chaim Topol and Yehoram Gaon gained attention
as film actors in Israel in the 1960s. Topol had parts in two
early 1960s films, I Like Mike and El Dorado, but his big
break came with the 1964 Sallah Shabbati and his brilliant
portrayal of an immigrant from North Africa who arrives
in Israel with his wife and pack of children. The film, writ-
ten and directed by Ephraim Kishon, was nominated for an
Oscar and won the Golden Globe for best foreignlanguage
film, with Topol winning a Golden Globe for most promis-
ing newcomer. For the fiftieth anniversary of its release, a
restored print of Sallah is to be shown in mid-July at the
Jerusalem Film Festival and it is hinted that it will be broad-
cast on TCM: Turner Movie Classics as part of its upcoming
September television series, The Projected Image-The Jewish
Experience on Film.
Sallah was the first Israeli film to attract any real attention
in this country, and Jews across America walked a little taller
when they saw it on movie theater marquees.
Two years later, Topol was playing Abou ibn Kader in Mel-
ville Shavelsons Cast A Giant Shadow.
Meanwhile, Yehoram Gaon, after leaving the army and the
Nachal Entertainment Troupe, joined with Arik Einstein and
Benny Amdursky to form a singing group called Shlishiat
Gesher Hayarkon (Gesher Bridge Trio). Not so coinciden-
tally, Mr. Einstein had performed with Topol in Batzal Yarok
(Green Onion). Mr. Einstein, who died earlier this year, would
later form Chalonot Hagvohim (The High Windows) and
become one of Israels great songwriters, actors and vocalists;
Mr. Amdursky, who died in 1994, had been part of the group
called the Dudaim, along with Israel Gurion.
Mr. Gaons first film role was with Mr. Einstein and Mr.
Amdursky in the 1964 Dalia Vehamalachim (Dalia and the
Sailors).
While Topol, a Jew of Ashkenazi descent, was playing a
Sephardi in Sallah and an Arab in Cast A Giant Shadow,
Mr. Gaon, whose parents came from Turkey and Macedonia,
seized on the opportunity to play a Moroccan in Kazablan, a
stage role he was offered while studying acting in New York in
1967. Kazablan would change the actor/vocalists life; as he
told me, he took on the part of this Sephardi Israeli, portrayed
in the movie as a second-class citizen, as a lifetime role.
To this day, people greet him in the streets of Israel by call-
ing out Kaza! and he waves back with pride.
Mr. Gaons stage performance brought him immediate
acclaim. He also has become an advocate for Sephardic music,
and the Ladino romanceros that he recorded remain favorites
today.
How interesting it is that both of these legends took their
stage roles and turned them into two great cinematic perfor-
mances. Topol came off the London stage as Tevye to star
in Mr. Jewisons adaptation of the play, and Mr. Gaon played
Kazablan in Menachem Golans 1974 film version of the stage
original.
Yehoram Gaon still performs, his music is a staple of
Israeli radio, and he takes pride in being a citizen and
spokesperson for the city of Jerusalem. Mr. Gaons 1971
Ani Yerushalmi (I Was Born in Jerusalem) has him travel-
ing on a carriage through the streets of the city, perform-
ing a variety of magnificent songs that were written by
Dov Seltzer and Haim Hefer. In his 1989 From Toledo to
Jerusalem, Mr. Gaon traces his Sephardic roots in Ladino
song and narration; five years ago, he made No Longer
from Jerusalem.
His achievements include playing Eli in the 1969 clas-
sic Siege, the part of Yonatan Netanyahu in Menachem
Golans 1977 Operation Thunderbolt, and Yoram in the
1982 television series called Krovim, Krovim. He and his
good friend Gila Almagor have been doing a great deal
of theater together lately; he also appears in concert. I
still remember when Mr. Gaon performed the song Rosa
from Kazablan at the 1975 Golden Globe Awards. It was one
of those special moments, watching the Israeli crooner on
television across the world, zeroing in on an adoring Jean
Stapleton, who was there as a nominee for her portrayal
of Edith in the television hit All in the Family.
Topol has had a brilliant acting career, and his performance
at the Folksbiene gala makes it clear that he still can belt it out.
The actor reprised his Tevye role in 1990 on Broadway; it is
impossible to forget the incredible gymnastics he performed
onstage. After Fiddler and Cast a Giant Shadow, his most
memorable roles were in Mr. Kishons 1967 Ervinka, the
1979 made-for-television The House on Garibaldi Street, his
role as Berel Jastrow in the 1983 and 1989 TV miniseries The
Winds of War and War and Remembrance, and his incred-
ible performance as Yacov Apfelschnitt in Jeroen Krabbes
1998 Left Luggage, a personal favorite. In 1979, Topol also
was involved in creating the New Media Bible; he played
the role of Abraham.
Topol and Yehoram Gaon represent the best that classic
Israeli cinema has to present. They deserve our praise, and all
the honors bestowed on them. Both men were pioneers, and
they remain vibrant forces in creating the new Jewish culture
that was the dream of the countrys pioneers.
Eric Goldman, the Jewish Standards film reviewer, is writing a
book on Israeli cinema. This summer, he will be a fellow at the
Schusterman Institute for Israel Studies at Brandeis University.
Raising the Roof brought together scores of actors of all ages who are veterans of Fiddler performances.
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LARRY YUDELSON
W
hen the Moriah School in
Englewood conducted a
parent survey last year, it
found that in three quar-
ters of the families, both parents worked.
It was time to rethink after-school
activities.
School leaders turned to two women,
Debbie Prince and Gila Comet, who both
work in Englewoods recreation depart-
ment. The two were asked them to help
with an after-school program that would
let parents pick up their children at
6 p.m.
The result: Moriah Plus, a program
that will launch with the new school year
in the fall and which wont be only for
Moriah students.
Ms. Prince and Ms. Comet hope to
attract students who live in Englewood
but attend other schools, including pub-
lic schools.
Its very important for Moriah stu-
dents to be exposed to other students,
who are not from the same background,
said Ms. Prince.
The program will include snacks,
homework help, recreation, and even bar
mitzvah lessons.
It will run from 3:30 to 6 p.m.
When your children come home,
you can have some quality family time
without the stress of homework and the
stress of shuttling your kids to activities
after a long day of work, Ms. Comet
promised.
Activities will include chess, Zumba,
soccer, fencing, flag football, volley-
ball, art, beading, yoga,
Pilates, writing, dance,
drama, and musi c.
Everything you could
possibly imagine, she
said. In the past, yeshi-
vas offered just basket-
ball or hockey. Were
tying to make sure every
child inds a place in the
program.
Both Ms. Comet and
Ms. Prince have children
in Moriah, as well as
older children who have
graduated.
Ms. Prince had been
president of the Moriah
Association of Parents
and established Club
Hub, the schools after-
school program. Where
Club Hub brought in commercial pro-
gram providers for its after-school activi-
ties, Moriah Plus will hire instructors
rather than programs, and it will retain
more control over the programming. We
are developing a wonderful staff who are
passionate and committed, Ms. Prince
said.
This will bring the costs down.
The program will cost $200 or $250 for
a one-day-a-week eight-week session.
Though they both send their children
to Moriah and belong to Congregation
Ahavath Torah in Englewood, Ms. Prince
and Ms. Comet met at Englewoods recre-
ation department. Ms. Prince was work-
ing part-time there in marketing; she had
taken a hiatus from her career to have
children. Then Gila walked in, looking
for part-time work, she said. Together,
we helped make the department grow
and extended it to a place where every-
one could ind something.
Then the school came to us.
Ms. Comet said that Moriah is doing
all they can to make this happen for their
families, and the broader Jewish commu-
nity around them. Theyre doing this as a
service for the community.
Gila Comet Debbie Prince
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Early Childhood
3:30 4:30pm Elective activity

4:30pm Optional early pick-up
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Lower School
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JFSNJ installs new slate
Jewish Family Service of North Jersey recently held its 70th annual meeting. From left,
immediate past president Sue Ann Levin; secretary Sue Feldman; new president Allyn
Michaelson; treasurer Elizabeth Cole; vice presidents Sue Nagler and Zahava Trosten, and
past president Paula Shaiman. Vice president Jim Lowenstein is not pictured.
Nahums and Gerard to be honored
The Jewish Community
Center of Paramus/Con-
gregation Beth Tikvah
will hold its 32nd annual
journal dinner dance on
Sunday, June 22. The
annual celebration hon-
ors outstanding mem-
bers of the community;
a commemorative jour-
nal will be published in
conjunction with it.
This years honorees
are long-time members Roz Gerard and
Gloria and Al Nahum. Ms. Gerard has
headed the shuls community affairs
committee for many years. Its success
has been recognized both within the
synagogue and in the community at
large. The Nahums have contributed to
the JCCP/CBT in many ways, including
leading Yesterday, Today, and Tomor-
row, a weekly discussion group.
Albert and Gloria Nahum Roz Gerard
Richard M. Joel
Huberman cited by social workers
Dr. Steven Huberman of
Teaneck, founding and cur-
rent dean of the Touro Col-
lege Graduate School of Social
Work, received the prestigious
Social Work Image award from
the National Association of
Social Workers at the New York
City chapters annual meeting
in Manhattan.
Si nc e Dr. Huber man
launched the graduate school
eight years ago, the school has
grown from an MSW class of 60
students to 300 students today.
His efforts also have led Touro
to cover each of its students
NASW membership dues, and
he has been a tireless advocate
in seeking to secure higher pay for social
workers.
Dr. Huberman is president of the New
York Association of Deans of Schools of
Social Work. In addition, he recently co-
chaired Lobby Day in Albany, which
brought students and faculty to the state
capital to advocate for loan forgiveness
for social workers and for passage of the
Dream Act, which would have allowed
undocumented students access to state
financial aid and scholarships for higher
education. These efforts led to an appro-
priation of $1.25 million from the New
York State legislature.
Dr. Huberman, who earned his Ph.D.
from Brandeis University, has written or
co-authored more than 50 major pub-
lications, with his research focusing on
growing old in America, social work pol-
icy, and coping with the attacks on 9/11.
He also writes a regular column, The
Touro Advisor, which concentrates on
mental health issues.
Dr. Steven Huberman, left, with Dr. Robert
Schachter, executive director of the National
Association of Social Workers-New York City.
Clifton Jewish Center celebrating 70 years
The Clifton Jewish Center is marking its 70th year in Clifton with a dinner dance on Sun-
day, June 22, at 2:30 p.m. It was the first Jewish organization established in that city.
Today, it is the only synagogue left in Clifton. Call (973) 772-3131 or visit www.cliftonjew-
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Marking the rebbes yahrzeit
Yeshiva Universitys president, Richard M. Joel, is the keynote
speaker at an evening dedicated to the 20th yahrzeit of Rabbi
Menachem Mendel Schneerson, sponsored by the Rabbinical Col-
lege of America and New Jerseys Chabad shluchim. It is set for
Monday, June 23, at 7:30 p.m., at the Wilshire Grand Hotel, 350
Pleasant Valley Way in West Orange, and will include a buffet des-
sert. The suggested sponsorship is $18. For information, call (973)
267-9404 or email info@rca.edu.
Rabbi Marcus appointed
to faculty at Lander College
Rabbi Shmuel Marcus has been named a member of the rab-
binic faculty at Beis Medrash LTalmud, an affiliate of Lander
College for Men in Kew Gardens Hills in Queens.
Rabbi Marcus received semicha from the Rabbi Isaac
Elchanan Theological Seminary, where he studied with his
grandfather, Rabbi Ahron Soloveichik. For the last 10 years
he has been a rebbe in Yeshiva Universitys Beis Medrash
program. He is also the rabbi of Kehilas Ishei Yisrael in Kew
Gardens Hills, a vice president of the Vaad Harabonim, and a
member of the RCA Beis Din for Conversions, all in Queens.
The Lander College for Men is an undergraduate division of Touro College.
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JHRs Sunni Herman speaks
at White House symposium
Sunni Herman, executive vice president
of the Jewish Home at Rockleigh, spoke at
the White House on Friday, June 13, dur-
ing a symposium about issues affecting the
elderly. The symposium was organized by
the Association of Jewish Aging Services.
Ms. Herman discussed pending legislation
about Medicare and eligibility requirements
for skilled nursing facilities. CEOs from the
Jewish Homes in Los Angeles, Philadelphia,
Chicago, Kansas, Denver, the Oscar and Ella
Wilf Campus for Senior Living in Somerset,
and the Hebrew Home in Riverdale, N.Y.,
also were there.
Myrna Block, president of the board
of the Jewish Home at Rockleigh, left,
and Sunni Herman, JHRs executive
vice president, flank New Jersey Sena-
tor Cory Booker in the Hart Senate
Building in Washington. The pair also
met with staffers from the offices of
Senator Robert Menendez and Con-
gressman Scott Garrett.
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Rabbi Simcha and Simmy Morgenstern
have joined the Jewish community of
Rockland. Rabbi Morgenstern is the new
director of outreach and education at
Chabad, where he will direct its Hebrew
school and co-direct Camp Gan Israel of
Rockland. Mrs. Morgenstern will teach at
the Hebrew Academy, initiate programs
for women, and help with community
outreach.
An open house to welcome them is set
for Thursday, June 26, at the Chabad Jew-
ish Community Center in New City, begin-
ning at 7:30 p.m.
Temple Emeth honors
high school grads
Temple Emeth in Teaneck honored its
high school graduates during services
on June 6. Rabbi Joshua Leighton, who
will be leaving the Temple Emeth clergy
team to serve as the director of youth
engagement at Temple Har Shalom in
Warren, also was honored.
A college student committee headed
by Nancy Scher and Gail Talcoff will keep
the college-bound students in touch with
synagogue activities.
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Bring them home
Eyal Yifrach.
Naftali Frankel.
Gilad Shaar.
There really is very little that we
can say.
It is a nightmare. One 19-year-old
and two 16-year-olds, kidnapped.
Taken. Gone.
The fears it evokes are primal.
Everyone who is a parent can imag-
ine the horror, the disbelief, the
numbness, the battle between hope
and despair, white and black, life and
death.
Everyone who has even been a
teenager can imagine the terror of
being taken, grabbed, moved away
from all light and love.
The world is rapidly becoming an
even more terrifying place than it had
been. Syria is falling apart, Russia is
reverting to form, the huge-scale hor-
rors in Nigeria are incomprehensible.
Our world increasingly makes no
sense.
And now this kidnapping, striking
at our hearts.
There are some small grace notes
that come from this nightmare.
The entire Jewish world is pulling
together. In Israel, we are told, the
left and the right are united on this;
bringing back our children trumps
everything else. Here, too, in the
diaspora, fear and hope and longing
unite us.
Across the region, Jews are meeting
to pray and talk together. From the
crucible of the emotion the unfold-
ing nightmare evokes, perhaps some
new understanding can be forged.
The situation continues to intensify
as time passes. Our coverage begins
on page 27. Because we are a weekly
newspaper we cannot update at web
speed, but we urge you to follow our
Facebook page. As soon as new infor-
mation appears anywhere on the
web, it is posted there. Its at www.
facebook.com/JewishStandard.
We join all Jews everywhere in
wishing that Eyal, Naftali, and Gilad
be free soon, and that they rejoin
their families in complete health and
wholeness. -JP
KEEPING THE FAITH
The threat from
the Christian
Right
A
s July 4 approaches, let us keep in mind the
two freedoms that should matter most to
us: freedom of religion, and freedom from
being governed by another religion.
Both are enshrined in the First Amendment to the
Constitution. And both are under constant attack from
the Christian Right. Such bible-thumping preachers as
John Hagee and his son Matthew all too often implore
their followers to continue the good fight to make
our godless society into the Christian nation its
founders intended, ruled by Gods Word as they
twistedly interpret it.
The older Hagee often says as much. America, he
said in a sermon last December, was founded by
Christians on Christian
principles according to
the word of God (and
who deliberately created
the separation of church
and state Hagee hates). He
added, If our belief in God
offends you, move.
Hagee was addressing
a l l huma ni s t s a nd
atheists, and anyone else
who objects to hearing
Christmas carols and seeing
nativity scenes in public
spaces. I am neither an atheist nor a humanist, but I
also object to such things (as I object to chanukiot in
the public square). So, Hagee was also talking to me
when he said in that sermon, Planes are leaving every
hour on the hour; get on one.
The younger Hagee at times is scarier than his father.
Just a couple of months ago, for example, he went
on the televised Hagee Hotline to urge followers
to be more proactive in seeing to it that our faith is
established in our culture. He urged them to become
more aggressive in your beliefs, and said, theres a
value in spiritual violence.
These are dangerous people. They fill malleable
minds with all kinds of absurdities about Gods Word,
although they lack any understanding of Gods Word.
What makes them dangerous, however, is not what
Shammai Engelmayer is rabbi of Temple Israel
Community Center | Congregation Heichal Yisrael in
Cliffside Park and Temple Beth El of North Bergen.
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Condemning a trip to Auschwitz
Last March, Professor Mohammed
Dajani, head of the Al-Quds Univer-
sity Department of American Stud-
ies in East Jerusalem, led a delega-
tion of 30 Palestinian students to
Auschwitz-Birkenau. It was believed
to be the first organized visit by a
Palestinian student group to the
death camps. Two Jewish Holo-
caust survivors guided the delega-
tion, which also spent several days
in Krakow.
At the same time, Israeli students
toured a Palestinian refugee camp.
Mr. Dajani hoped that the trip
would convince both the Pales-
tinian and the Israelis that the
conflict between them need not be
intractable.
Israel and the United States
praised him and the trip he led.
On May 18, Mr. Dajani, a former
Fatah fighter whom Israel had
banned for 30 years, resigned from
Al-Quds. Instead of supporting him,
the university had expelled him
from the staff union, and made its
displeasure with him clear. Fellow
Palestinians called him a traitor.
Mr. Dajani had hoped that the
university would reject his resigna-
tion, thus sending what he called a
clear message that the university
supports academic freedom, and
considers my trip as an educational
journey in search of knowledge.
He also said that the universitys
acceptance of his June 1 resignation
exposed Palestinian double talk
when it comes to freedom of speech
and academic freedom.
We are saddened that the realities
on the ground brought Mr. Dajani
down. He is courageous, and his
intentions are good. We hope that
his work will continue, and that
more people within both Israeli and
Palestinian academic worlds will at
least use education as the wire cut-
ters to cut through the barbed wire
of hate and ignorance. - PJ
Shammai
Engelmayer
On June 15, thousands gather at the Western Wall to pray for the re-
lease of the three kidnapped teenagers YONATAN SINDEL/FLASH90.
KEEPING THE FAITH
The threat from
the Christian
Right
A
s July 4 approaches, let us keep in mind the
two freedoms that should matter most to
us: freedom of religion, and freedom from
being governed by another religion.
Both are enshrined in the First Amendment to the
Constitution. And both are under constant attack from
the Christian Right. Such bible-thumping preachers as
John Hagee and his son Matthew all too often implore
their followers to continue the good fight to make
our godless society into the Christian nation its
founders intended, ruled by Gods Word as they
twistedly interpret it.
The older Hagee often says as much. America, he
said in a sermon last December, was founded by
Christians on Christian
principles according to
the word of God (and
who deliberately created
the separation of church
and state Hagee hates). He
added, If our belief in God
offends you, move.
Hagee was addressing
a l l huma ni s t s a nd
atheists, and anyone else
who objects to hearing
Christmas carols and seeing
nativity scenes in public
spaces. I am neither an atheist nor a humanist, but I
also object to such things (as I object to chanukiot in
the public square). So, Hagee was also talking to me
when he said in that sermon, Planes are leaving every
hour on the hour; get on one.
The younger Hagee at times is scarier than his father.
Just a couple of months ago, for example, he went
on the televised Hagee Hotline to urge followers
to be more proactive in seeing to it that our faith is
established in our culture. He urged them to become
more aggressive in your beliefs, and said, theres a
value in spiritual violence.
These are dangerous people. They fill malleable
minds with all kinds of absurdities about Gods Word,
although they lack any understanding of Gods Word.
What makes them dangerous, however, is not what
Opinion
they say, but to how many people they say it to at the
same time tens of thousands of people via television,
YouTube videos, Facebook pages, and the like.
Bible-thumpers are not new; they have been
around since the founding of this Republic, and they
congregate more in the South than the North.
The South was always more Christian religious
than the North. Its churches for the most part
defended slavery, and joined in the cheering following
the Supreme Courts 1857 decision in Dred Scott v.
Sanford. A runaway slave was returned to his master
and Gods Word was preserved. Hallelujah!
Only, Gods Word on the subject was ignored,
not preserved. It is found in Deuteronomy 23:16-17:
You shall not turn over to his master a slave who
seeks refuge with you from his master. He shall live
with you in any place he may choose among the
settlements in your midst, wherever he pleases; you
must not ill-treat him.
One could argue that Dred Scott is ancient history,
but that misses the bigger picture that Torah
commandments paint. In this case, what is a runaway
slave if not someone fleeing persecution, or because
he or she fears for the lives of his or her family and him
or herself ? What is a runaway slave if not someone
who wants a chance at a better life?
What is a runaway slave if not an illegal immigrant
by another name?
Yet many on the Christian Right most, perhaps,
but not all oppose anything that even comes close
to immigration reform. They want no part of fast-
tracking illegals, or allowing the children of
illegals to attend schools, or treating illegals in
emergency rooms.
Maimonides, the Rambam, had a much better
understanding of Gods Word. To him, the runaway
slave commandment was filled with responsibilities
toward the fugitive. Not only must we protect and
defend those who seek our protection and not deliver
them over to those from whom they have fled, but we
also are under another obligation toward him: you
must consider his interests, be beneficent toward him,
and not pain his heart by speech. (See Guide for the
Perplexed, Book III, Chapter 59.)
Gods Word has much more to say on the subject,
however, including an emphasis on how we are to
treat the stranger, visitor, or long-time resident. It
starts with Leviticus 19:34, which is a commandment
to love the stranger. A contemporary commentator,
Rabbi Shlomo Riskin, once explained the verse this
way: You shall love the ger [stranger], because
you were gerim [strangers] in the land of Egypt. We
were total strangers to the Egyptians, who therefore
dehumanized us and enslaved us. We are enjoined to
treat the other or the stranger clearly in this context
the non-Jew with love, rather than discrimination
and persecution.
In last weeks portion, the Torah emphasized several
times that there had to be one law for us and for the
stranger within our gates. [I]t shall be a law for all
time throughout the ages. You and the stranger shall
be alike before the Lord. (See Numbers 15:14-16.)
Gods Word may be a tempting alternative to the
way things are now in this country, but not the way
the Christian Right interprets it. John Hagee especially
is revered by Jewish organizations, governmental
leaders in the State of Israel, and even individual Jews,
because he heads the largest pro-Israel advocacy
group in the world, Christians United For Israel.
It is a good thing he is so effective at it, because if he
and the Christian Right ever got their way here, Israel
would be the only place we could run to.
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Stones with a human heart
T
he lyrics of the classic Israeli
song Ha-Kotel (The
Western Wall) created
by Yossi Gamzu and Dubi
Zellser, and popularized by Ofra Haza,
among others took on a newly pro-
phetic timbre of late: Yesh anashim
im lev shel even, yesh avanim im lev
adam There are people with hearts
of stone, and there are Stones with a
human heart.
The Rolling Stones, to be precise:
the legendary British rock band played
a concert in Tel Avivs Yarkon Park for
some 50,000 appreciative fans, despite
political pressure by the BDS (Boycott-
Divestment-Sanctions) movement to
cancel their appearance. Efforts to
intimidate the band repeated the usual specious and hateful
rhetoric and familiar canards. Rafeef Ziadah, a BDS spokes-
man lectured: We urge the Rolling Stones to refrain from
playing in apartheid Israel and not to condone Israels viola-
tions of international law and human rights against the Pales-
tinian people. With good cause,
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin
Netanyahu has quipped that BDS
really stands for Bigotry, Dishon-
esty, and Shame.
The concert was held on June
4, the night after Shavuot. The
Stones appearance was delayed
to a later hour (despite local ordi-
nances prohibiting loud music
after 11 p.m.) so that religiously
observant fans could get there
without violating the sanctity of
the festival. Mick Jagger greeted
the crowd with Chag Shavuot sameach! Jagger, Keith Rich-
ards, Charlie Watts, and Ronnie Wood, together with an
entourage of (a biblically resonant!) 70 crew and family mem-
bers, toured Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, and they visited the Dead
Sea in advance of the concert. After the concert, Mick Jagger
tweeted his appreciation: Todah Thanks to everyone in
Israel for the great reception. It was a great concert and we
will always remember it. Nizkor otah tamid.
Those who have Israels well-being at heart should remem-
ber it too. Whether our support for the Jewish state is
grounded in religious identification, or it is a matter of prin-
ciple with no Jewish ethnic or nationalistic basis simply
because Israel is a faithful American ally and a besieged island
of modernity, stability, and democracy amid a sea of unrest,
revolution, and anti-Americanism we rightly decry the
BDS movement and its advocates. While identifying the evils
of BDS, we are similarly duty-bound to celebrate those who
defy its ugly politics. Such independence, moral courage, and
friendship are not to be taken for granted, especially when
it comes from such a renowned and influential group as the
Rolling Stones. The Jewish people is adept, as a result of a long
and unfortunate history of irrational detractors, at identifying
attacks and offenses. We would do well to hone our collective
skill at recognizing the hand of friendship when it is extended,
and at reciprocating with genuine and warm appreciation.
Israeli president Shimon Peres, soon to leave office, appar-
ently shared in the enthusiastic response to the concert. He
posted a note on his Facebook page, quoting the Stones hit:
You Cant Always Get What You Want.
Of course, the Stones are not the first to break ranks and
perform in the Jewish state. Among those who have done so
are, notably, Elton John, Paul McCartney, Neil Young, Cyndi
Lauper, Aerosmith, Bob Dylan, Lady Gaga, Madonna, Guns N
Roses... and others. Nizkor otah tamid.
The politics of BDS demonstrates that there are indeed
anashim im lev shel even people with hearts of stone.
(You better go home, cause youll, youll never break this
heart of stone, as the Rolling Stones lyric has it.) The warm
and gracious response of Mick Jagger and company to their
Israeli public has made it abundantly clear, too, that yesh
avanim im lev adam there are Stones with human hearts.
There are precious hearts that understand that boycotts and
exclusion, isolation and cynical campaigns to delegitimize
legitimate regimes are no road to peace.
Hearts that understand that these political weapons belong
in the hands neither of performers and artists (cue Alice
Walker, Elvis Costello, Carlos Santana), nor those of academ-
ics and scientists (AAAS, ASA, AUT, MLA, PACBI, et al: take
note). Did the Stones go to Israel to express sympathy with
the Zionist cause? To reject rejectionism and boycott as a mat-
ter of artistic principle? Solely motivated by their 5.4 million
dollar concert deal (the amount has been reported by some
as approaching 7 million)? Whatever their motives, I celebrate
their choices (or at least this one!). They defied the forces of
hatred masquerading as social conscience. Thereve been
good times, thereve been bad times Though these hard
times are buggin me now, Honey, now its a sin. Theres gotta
be trust in this world, or it wont get very far.
Perhaps it is not too optimistic to hope that the motzaei
Shavuot concert in Tel Aviv is a milestone heralding the ulti-
mate failure of the BDS movement, betokening a trend toward
more even-handed, tolerant, and, indeed, appreciative atti-
tudes toward the Jewish state.
Or as Naomi Shemer, the first lady of Israeli song and
poetry put it, Ki min ha-avanim ha-eleh yibaneh ha-Mik-
dash From these Stones, a more sanctified future will be
built. May her words, too, prove prophetic.
Joseph Prouser is rabbi of Temple Emanuel of North Jersey in
Franklin Lakes.
Rabbi Joseph
H. Prouser
The Rolling Stones played to appreciative fans in Tel Aviv, defying the
BDS movement.
The politics of BDS
demonstrates that there
are indeed anashim im
lev shel even people
with hearts of stone.
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Superhero spring
Examing the midrash of popular cinematic culture
T
he second quarter
of 2014 has been
rather remarkable
for superhero mov-
ies, with three different films,
Captain America: The Winter
Soldier, The Amazing Spider-
Man 2, and X-Men: Days of
Future Past, in the theaters all
at the same time at one point.
All three movies are adap-
tations of Marvel Comics, the
publishing group launched by Stan Lee (aka
Stanley Lieber) in 1961, and purchased by Dis-
ney in 2009. Stan Lee was the son of Jewish
immigrants from Romania, and as a teenager
took a job in 1939 with Timely Publications,
the company that he eventually would evolve
into Marvel Comics.
The Marvel Age, as it came to be known,
was in many ways the result of a collabora-
tion between Lee, as writer and editor, and
the artist Jack Kirby. Kirby (aka Jacob Kurtz-
berg), the son of Jewish immigrants from Aus-
tria, started to work as a comics artist in 1936,
and was hired by Timely in 1940, while he
was still in his early 20s. He worked with Joe
Simon, just a few years his senior and also the
son of Jewish immigrants, and the two cre-
ated the most famous of patriotically-themed
superheroes, Captain America.
Fighting Nazis months before
the United States entered the
Second World War, this hero
stood as a counter to Nazi theo-
ries of racial superiority, as the
product of good old American
know-how.
Captain America originally
was a frail and weak young
man, unfit for military duty,
until he was given an experi-
mental serum that transformed him into a
super soldier. In a reflection of the egali-
tarianism of American culture, anyone
receiving the same treatment could reach
the height of human perfection just as he
had. But the secret formula died with the
scientist who created it who was assas-
sinated by a Nazi spy.
At first glance Captain America comes
across as an all-American hero, but his
story in fact encapsulates the intergenera-
tional experience of immigrants and their
children. Growing up in Europe under dif-
ficult conditions, immigrants tended to be
relatively small of stature, sometimes sickly,
while their children, born and raised in
the United States, grew up tall and strong
due to superior diet and medical care. The
powerful resonance of this hero, resur-
rected by Lee and Kirby a few years into
the Marvel Age, continued despite the
counterculture movement (Peter Fondas
character in the 1969 film Easy Rider
was nicknamed Captain America), and is
still present in the sequel to the first Cap-
tain America film, in which Scarlett Johans-
son reprises her role as the superspy Black
Widow. Captain America: The Winter Sol-
dier continues to remind us of the moral
clarity of the American fight against Nazism
(in the films largely represented by the fic-
tional organization Hydra), as well as the
ideal of the American dream, which tells us
that we can improve upon and remake our-
selves through our own ingenuity.
Lee and Kirby also created the X-Men,
a superhero team composed of mutants,
born with genetic differences that resulted
in extraordinary powers and abilities. While
originally framed as stories about good
mutants battling evil mutants, the concept
naturally lent itself to stories about preju-
dice, drawing upon themes derived from
the history of anti-Semitism and the Holo-
caust and the civil rights movement. Mag-
neto, one of the X-Mens main antagonists,
espoused a variation on Nazi racial theo-
ries, arguing that mutants constitute a new
species, which he dubbed homo superior.
Lee and Kirby never intended for the char-
acter to be seen as Jewish, although as the
back story evolved he was shown to have
been a victim of the Nazis, who after all per-
secuted a number of other minority groups.
Decades after the character was intro-
duced, however, he was transformed into a
Jewish-Holocaust-survivor-turned-terrorist
through a bit of revisionist comic book his-
tory, something of a Malcolm X and Meir Kah-
ane for mutants. In the comics, this depiction
is balanced by the presence of other, entirely
positive Jewish heroes, such as the young
mutant Kitty Pryde, who plays a significant
role in X-Men: Days of Future Past, but is
never identified in regard to religion or eth-
nicity. That balance is entirely missing in the
2011 film, X-Men: First Class, which shows
Magnetos childhood experiences in a Nazi
concentration camp. While this serves to
explain his militancy, the transformation
from victim to villain cannot be entirely
justified, and the characterization would
seem to reflect changing attitudes toward
Israel and Zionism in recent years. Thank-
fully, this years X-Men film (the seventh in
that series) avoids any mention of Magnetos
background, as the future that he and the
other heroes fight to prevent is one in which
Lance Strate
The Kurds and the Jews
Why an independent Kurdistan could be a beacon of hope for Israel
D
uring the war in
Iraq, when I was
still living in Lon-
don and coordi-
nating news coverage of the
overthrow of Saddam Hus-
sein for various international
media organizations, I was in
regular contact with a brave
Iraqi Kurdish journalist named
Ayub Nuri.
When Ayub and I finally met
in person in New York several years later,
we spent a couple of hours talking about
the region generally, and specifically about
whether Israel had a natural ally in the Kurds.
So it was with some pleasure, in the midst
of a horrible news week for the Middle East,
that I came across an interview with Ayub
in which he said the following: Kurds are
deeply sympathetic to Israel and an indepen-
dent Kurdistan will be beneficial to Israel. It
will create a balance of power.
Right now, Israel is one country against
many. But with an independent Kurdish
state, first of all Israel will have a genuine
friend in the region for the first time, and sec-
ond, Kurdistan will be like a buffer zone in
the face of Turkey, Iran, and Iraq.
Think about the meaning of the words a
genuine friend. In this con-
text, it means a country in the
region that not only respects
Israels right to exist as a Jewish
state, but also actively seeks to
strengthen their mutual bonds.
A country whose population is
overwhelmingly Muslim but
secular in political orienta-
tion, and one where the anti-
Semitism that dominates else-
where in the Islamic world is
strikingly absent. Kurdistan actually is what
many Jews mistakenly supposed Turkey to
be: a Muslim-majority state with no ideologi-
cal or theological objections to the idea of
Jewish national self-determination.
Unlike the Palestinians, whose objec-
tions to Israels very existence have stymied
repeated attempts to create a Palestin-
ian state, the 30 million Kurds never have
enjoyed similar international backing in their
quest for independence. Instead, they have
been repressed and even exterminated by
the regimes in the countries in which they are
concentrated: Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran.
But thanks to the U.S.-led victory over Sad-
dam a Hitler-like figure for the Kurds who
remember his genocidal war against them in
the mid-1980s, including the 1988 murder of
around 5,000 people, mostly women and
children, during a chemical weapons attack
on the town of Halabja the Kurds were able
to consolidate the Kurdistan Regional Gov-
ernment in the north of the country.
Over the last decade, talk of Kurdistan
splitting from Iraq has surfaced continually.
Many Jews, moved by the shared experience
of genocide by our two peoples, and sym-
pathetic to the fact that the Kurds, like us,
have been the victims of Arab chauvinism
in both its nationalist and its Islamist forms,
rightly have supported such a move on moral
grounds. Yet we shouldnt forget that this is
one situation in which, happily, moral consid-
erations fit neatly with strategic ones.
As of this moment, the Kurds have little
reason to hold back from declaring inde-
pendence, as they have done in the recent
past. For as long as the United States was
seriously engaged in Iraq, and helping
to guarantee de facto Kurdish control of
the oil-rich north, the KRG was wise not
to upset the delicate balance by mak-
ing a move that would have caused a
major headache for American relations
with Turkey and other neighbors. Now,
almost three years after President Obama
withdrew American troops from Iraq,
the Kurds rightly are skeptical about the
chances that Washington will assist them
in confronting the predators around their
territories.
More and more, the Middle East looks like
a failed region, rather than a collection of
failed states. The disintegration of Syria has
caused the disintegration of Iraq and even-
tually could consume Lebanon as well. The
obvious winners are jihadi groups like ISIS
the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, one
of the most brutal Islamist terrorist organi-
zations we have encountered to date and
the Iranian regime, which has exploited the
general meltdown to boost the Assad regime
in Damascus and the Hezbollah terrorists in
Lebanon and Syria (and whose murky rela-
tions with the jihadis are closer than many
people understand).
Meanwhile, the Americans are stoking
the sense that nothing short of a repeat of
9/11 in other words, another terror spec-
tacular on American soil will reverse
their determination to wash their hands
of this wretched region.
All those Obama Democrats who complain
so loudly about anti-Muslim prejudice in the
West apparently have little to say when it
comes to the Islamist violence that has cre-
ated 800,000 Muslim refugees in Iraq this
Ben Cohen
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mutants along with almost everyone else are sub-
jected to a new kind of holocaust,. But there is an obvious
bit of relativism at work in this film in that the leader of the
anti-mutant crusade is played by Peter Dinklage, a New
Jersey native perhaps best known for his work as Tyrion
Lannister in Game of Thrones. Although no mention is
made of his dwarfism, the clear implication is that even
those subject to persecution are not immune from per-
secuting others.
Spider-Man is Stan Lees most memorable creation, and
has been commonly described as Woody Allen with webs,
a superhero who is a bit of a schlimazel, plagued with per-
sonal problems, perhaps even a bit neurotic, or, in the
parlance of the 60s, full of hang-ups. Much like Captain
America, Spider-Man is described as puny before his
transformation, in this case due to an accidental bite by
a radioactive spider. While meek and mild, he is a highly
intelligent and diligent high school student, living with
over-protective parents (actually his aunt and uncle), a
type familiar enough in postwar Jewish communities like
the Forest Hills section of Queens, where the story of Spi-
der-Man begins.
Although he is given an Anglo-Saxon name, Peter
Parker, and a matching identity, the Jewish sensibility of
Marvels most popular hero also extends to his constant
use of humor even while fighting a supervillain.
But what drives Spider-Man above all else is a very Jew-
ish sense of guilt. This is worked into his origin. He does
not immediately dedicate himself to helping others after
gaining his extraordinary gifts. It is only after standing
idly by during a robbery that he is shocked to learn that
the criminal he allowed to escape went on to murder his
Uncle Ben.
Stan Lees most memorable quote, with great
power comes great responsibility, comes via this
character, who serves as a father figure for Peter. The
Amazing Spider-Man 2 (actually the fifth Spider-Man film,
although the sequel to the 2012 series reboot) continues to
emphasize the themes of guilt and responsibility as they
relate to Peters girlfriend Gwen Stacy (another source of
tragedy and guilt).
Of course Jews do not have a monopoly on guilt, but we
do have our own particular brand of it. A colleague of mine
whose father is Jewish and whose mother is Catholic insight-
fully observed that Catholics make you feel guilty for things
that you do, while Jews make you feel guilty for what you
dont do. This of course corresponds to the sins of commis-
sion and omission. Ogden Nash, in his poem, Portrait of the
Artist as a Prematurely Old Man, famously suggested that the
sins of commission are preferable in that they must at least
be fun or else you wouldnt be committing them, whereas it
is the sin of omission that lays eggs under your skin.
The guilt for what you dont do, for standing idly by while
others suffer, for not taking a stand against discrimination and
injustice, for not opposing the evil that we find in the world, for
not being the best that we can be and for not taking responsibil-
ity for ourselves and for others, is the underlying message of the
Marvel Age, in comics and now in motion pictures. It serves as
a kind of pop culture midrash for our times.
Dr. Lance Strate of Palisades Park is a professor of
communication and media studies at Fordham University in
the Bronx and president of his synagogue, Congregation Adas
Emuno in Leonia. He is the author of the just-released Amazing
Ourselves to Death: Neil Postmans Brave New World Revisited.
We have heard a great deal from people who
liked our Palisades Amusement Park story
last week, and some of them were interested
in the poster we used on the cover. There
are copies of the poster available at the
Westwood Art Gallery for $175. The gallery
is at westwoodartgallery.com.
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JOANNE PALMER
I
do Aharoni, Israels consul general
in New York, has a theory about
why Israelis produce such a dis-
proportionate number of technical
innovations.
There are two intertwined reasons, he
said.
Israel is a young state, and even pre-
statehood it always faced a crisis situation.
Survivability became an essential thing for
that small society. The innovative spirit in
Israel springs from that.
And it also comes from Jewish tradi-
tion. In Judaism, you are given permission
to ask questions, to challenge authority.
The force that propels any creative mind
is the ability to ask questions, and it fuels
an incredible amount of creativity and
inspiration. The proof is the way the Israel
Defense Forces Israels armed forces
is an incredible incubator of ideas.
And those ideas, Mr. Aharoni added,
are not all about science and technoloy.
You can ind the Israeli creative
spirit in Israeli cuisine, on the big
screen and on the small screen,
on the dance floor. Wherever
you go, you ind that unique Israeli
creativity, growing out of the
Israeli ethos of individuality and
entrepreneurship.
On Tuesday, Mr. Aharoni is join-
ing with the mayor of Jersey City,
Steven Fulop, in showcasing eight
high-tech Israeli start-ups.
We want to highlight Israeli cre-
ativity, and one reason to do it in
Jersey City is to reach out to people
who live outside Manhattan, Mr.
Aharoni said. Part of our mission
statement is to cover the entire
tri-state area. We want to build
bridges with the people in New Jer-
sey by sharing with them technolo-
gies that are relevant to their daily
lives.
It is particularly itting to offer the show-
case in northern New Jersey because the
community has been extremely support-
ive of Israel over the years, he said. Our
job is to broaden the connections between
Israel and the Jewish community, and the
New Jersey Jewish community is a partner
in this process.
Mr. Fulop, who is Jewish, and whose
father lived in Israel for many years, said
that he met Mr. Aharoni a few months ago,
and we started talking about things we
could work on together in order to throw
a positive light on Israel, to look at Israel
from a positive standpoint, to make sure
that Israel and our relationship with it on
the local level are perceived as positive.
We celebrated Israels independence
day, we recognized that it is an impor-
tant democracy, but it is also a technoloy
innovator, and a global leader in technol-
oy, he continued. A lot of people dont
appreciate that they dont realize how
small Israel is, and how disproportionate
the amount of technoloy that comes out
Motherland of
invention?
Jersey City offers high-tech fair showcasing Israeli innovations
of it is.
There have been fairs like this in other
parts of the country, so I said, Lets do it
here. You give me the technoloy, and I
will promote it. (The Jewish Federation
of Northern New Jersey and its Center
for Israel Engagement have taken on the
task of promoting the fair in its catchment
area.)
The companies at the technoloy fair are
start-ups, but none are looking for funds to
begin their work. All are past that stage;
all of them are operational, Mr. Aharoni
said. They are looking to increase their
visibility. This is not an event to attract
investors, but to increase the visibility of
their products.
Still, Mr. Fulop said, Jersey City is for-
tunate to have a building boom going on
now. A lot of people who are involved here
have substantial wealth, whether they are
the families of Holocaust survivors, Israeli
immigrants, or other people of means.
We have promoted this to all of them.
All the companies at the fair are promot-
ing apps. Some are social, some are more
practical, some seem elegantly inevitable
now that someone else has thought of
them, and others perhaps are less intui-
tive. All are clever. Each one demands per-
sistence, creativity, and intelligence from
its creators.
Spreo, for example, offers indoor navi-
gation. Many large buildings are
complex, and once they are inside
many people ind that their inter-
nal compasses are unable to ind
true north. Spreo, which is close
to a large deal in the United States,
according its co-founder and
CEO, Avi Sacajiu, began
implementing its system
in Haifa, where people can
use it to get from a hospital
parking lot to their own doc-
tors ofices, somewhere
within a hospitals internal
maze.
Mr. Sacajiu, an Israeli who
recently moved from Tenafly
to Manhattan but still sits on
the board at the Kaplen JCC
on the Palisades, said that
an internal navigation sys-
tem does not work the way
a GPS does. A GPS relies on
Spreos CEO, Avi Sacajiu,
and a map of a building
complex displayed on a
users cellphone.
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satellites, but that technoloy does not
work inside. Its hard to ind a system that
can do indoor navigation, he said. Other
companies also are tackling the problem,
but he thinks that Spreo is winning the
race to solve it and then sell a system
based on that solution irst.
He said that although he moved to the
New York area, which now is a hub for
technoloy, Spreos research and devel-
opment still are done in Israel. There is
a big advantage to keeping it there, he
said. Israelis are very skilled, they are
very strong in mathematics, and they are
risk-takers. It often is hard to replicate that
outside Israel.
Why is that? He laughed. Its the Jews
problem, he said. They carry such a big
head. Sometimes its a problem. Some-
times its an advantage.
More seriously, he said, the
experience many young Israelis
get during their IDF stint read-
ies them, both intellectually and
emotionally, for start-up work.
That background is not only use-
ful in general, but it is particularly
germane to Spreos work.
Quite a bit of the army training
these days is around intelligence,
and the ability to connect pieces
of information and to put them
together into a picture, he said.
Young Israeli intelligence oficers
are quite capable today of nailing
down exactly where a terrorist is.
They can locate terrorists exactly
on the map. Mapping is very strong.
Quite a bit of this technoloy is
coming out of the army, from the
Mamran the IDFs elite intelli-
gence and computer science corps,
he said. Those veterans are valu-
able, and people are looking for
them. And then there is the Tech-
nion the university that is to
some extent Israels MIT. Israel
is fertile ground for ideas and
technoloy.
Spreos website is spreo.co. (Note
that the sufix is not a typo. It is not spreo.
com.)
Gilad Rotem is one of the ive co-found-
ers of Cups, an app that matches would-
be coffee drinkers and coffee-shop-sitters
with independent coffeehouses. Cups
launched in Tel Aviv about a year and a
half ago, but although the app was suc-
cessful, the coffee world there proved
itself to be too small.
The app is not unlike the one Starbucks
provides, which uses global tracking soft-
ware on peoples phones to point users
to the closest Starbucks stores. Instead
of indicating chain stores, however, Cups
highlights the independent coffeehouses
that chose to join its network.
Besides developing the app, we are
uniting the stores, Mr. Rotem said. In
essence, we are creating a new chain of
independent coffee stores.
Part of the apps appeal is the commu-
nity aspect, he said, as well as the chance
it offers users to discover and enjoy new
coffee shops.
Another part of its appeal is that it
allows consumers to pay in advance, and
offers them a 20 percent discount.
On the one hand, it is a very American
product, Mr. Rotem said. There is noth-
ing Israeli built into it. But on the other
hand, the fact that ive Israelis thought that
they could come to New York and make it
work thats pretty Israeli.
When the developers irst came to the
United States, their goal was to ind a
more itting market, Mr. Rotem said.
And after some research we realized that
New York is the best place to start. Cups
now has about 200 coffee shops in its net-
work; most of them are downtown, cen-
tered around the inancial district, but the
companys goal is to expand uptown in the
next few weeks.
Cups website is www.cupsapp.com.
Farmiga, which connects you as a
customer to local farms in your area, to
sources for all your fresh produce, as
Benzi Ronen said, is a socially driven orga-
nization. It was created to improve the
relationship between people and their
food, and therefore between people and
their world. Using its software, You can
get everything, from fresh vegetables and
fruits and cheese and breads from a local
baker, Mr. Ronen, who is a Farmiga co-
founder and its CEO, said. Everything is
fresh from small local farms, and direct
from harvest.
Farmigas model is complicated and
multilayered; it is somewhere between
Fresh Direct and a CSA. It is hyperlocal,
Mr. Ronen said. We use technoloy to
form networks of farms, and you can have
a direct connection with it.
When you place your order, you know
exactly what farm it is coming from, Mr.
Ronen said; similarly, farmers know how
much to harvest. (The system cannot yet
tell them what to plant, although such
information will be available eventually,
Cups Gilad Rotem; above him is one
of the independent coffee shops in
the network and to his left is a Cups
page on a phone.
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Your order goes to a farm, they harvest it,
and they bring it to a warehouse that we have.
It can come from any of 25 different farms
and local artisans. Your bag gets built in the
warehouse, and then pushed out to a Farmiga
community.
We are on a trajectory not just to make it
more convenient for you to buy good food,
he continued. We think that people need to
be brought back to the experience of getting
food. To that end, consumers must join com-
munities, and pick up their bags at a central
place. That pick-up place is inviting, and often
people stay there for a while, talking, mak-
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And its economical to shop through Farmiga,
Mr. Ronen added; often, it is up to 20 percent
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elsewhere.
Although until now Farmiga has been mainly
in New York and northern California, it is about
to open three new communities, two in Hobo-
ken and the third in Englewood.
Mr. Ronen is Israeli-American, and Farmigas
co-founder is Israeli. We started the company
in Israel, but then I moved here to launch our
headquarters, he said. Israel is a tiny country,
with fairly limited resources, so it is not a good
target market. Its too small.
You have to raise money and get to scale,
and the most obvious place to launch is the
United States. That, he said, is why so many
Israeli start-ups make their way here.
He feels strongly that Farmiga belongs in
New Jersey. Its called the Garden State, but
really its not, he said. You guys have amaz-
ing farms but New Jersey is mall country,
and national chains have iniltrated every-
where. As a result, the traditional hub-and-
spoke food delivery system ensures that on
average, food moves about 2,500 miles and
sits on a shelf for about two weeks before it inds
itself in a consumers refrigerator.
Its a paradox, Mr. Ronen said. You can be
right next to a farm, but you dont get to eat that
produce.
Farmigas website is www.farmiga.com.
Five other start-up also are slated to be at the fair.
Mr. Aharoni, the consul general, mentioned another
start-up, which could not send a representative to the
fair but fascinates him nonetheless. It is called TaKaDu,
and Mr. Aharoni said that it invented something simple
yet brilliant.
They analyze existing computer data regarding
water systems, he said.
Admittedly, this is not glamorous work but it
addresses a real problem. Water systems around the
world spring leaks, which can be hard to diagnose until
they grow big, and hard to locate without expensive
drilling. Thanks to a very sophisticated algorithm that
TaKaDu developed, they can tell a municipality or the
owner of a water system whether they have a leak, how
bad the leak is, and exactly where it is.
That can save an incredible amount of money. They
dont have to drill until they know exactly where the
leak is.
The other start-up companies scheduled to be at the
fair include the self-explanatory Get Taxi (www.gettaxi.
com); Pango, a parking app (www.mypango.com);
Appcard, a shopping-rewards-card app; Cellolo, which
allows more dialogue between performers and their
audiences (www.cellolo.com), and Loyal Blocks, a con-
sumer loyalty app (www.loyalblocks.com).
The fair is certain to have ingenuity and resourceful-
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pragmatism that has served both New Jersey and Israel
well. And who knows? It also might be a showcase for
the Next Big Thing.
Who: Jersey Citys Mayor Steven Fulop and Is-
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simple: Find them and punish their kidnappers.
Realizing those goals, though, is far from a simple task.
The international community has condemned the kid-
nappings, and Israel has spread its forces across the West
Bank to search for the teens. Israeli Prime Minister Ben-
jamin Netanyahu has vowed to stop at nothing to find the
three teenagers.
But the effort is taking place amid an increasingly com-
plicated period in Israeli-Palestinian relations.
Israel is holding the Palestinian Authority responsible
for the incident, but also is working with it to find the
teens. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas
condemned the kidnapping but now shares a government
with Hamas, which has hailed the abduction. And while
Israel has promised to do everything it can to bring the
boys back, there are efforts in the Knesset to prevent pris-
oner swaps of the sort that freed hostages in the past.
The teens were captured on June 12, and in his first pub-
lic statement on the incident two nights later, Mr. Netan-
yahu wasted no time blaming the kidnapping on the new
Palestinian unity government formed as a result of an
agreement between Abbas Fatah party and Hamas.
We hold Abu Mazen and the Palestinian Authority
responsible for all attacks against Israel that originate
from their territory, whether this is Judea and Samaria or
the Gaza Strip, Mr. Netanyahu said, using Abbas nom
de guerre.
On Sunday, the prime minister said he knew for a fact
that Hamas had perpetrated the attack and again pledged
to hold the PA to account.
But Israels coordination with the Palestinian Author-
ity on West Bank security has continued unabated. PA
security forces are helping Israel comb the areas under
PA control for the teens.
On Monday, Mr. Abbas and Mr. Netanyahu spoke to
each other for the first time in more than a year.
Shlomo Brom, head of the program for Israeli-Palestin-
ian Relations at Tel Aviv Universitys Institute for National
Security Studies, said it was a mistake for Netanyahu to try
to pin the blame on Abbas.
Thats the last thing he should do because now we
need the Palestinians, he said. The last thing we should
do is weaken them.
Mr. Netanyahus accusation that Hamas was behind
the abduction was denied by Hamas leaders, though
they also praised the kidnapping. On Sunday, the prime
minister received support from U.S. Secretary of State
John Kerry, who said many indications point to Hamas
involvement.
Some experts suggested that Hamas is the only organi-
zation in the West Bank sophisticated enough to carry out
the kidnapping, but that it had nothing to gain from con-
firming Israeli claims. Taking responsibility for kidnap-
ping children would not gain Hamas international sym-
pathy and would encourage Israel to expand its military
operation, they said.
On Tuesday, Israel arrested 41 Hamas officials and
placed additional restrictions on Hamas prisoners in
Israel.
It would have been easier had they kidnapped sol-
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at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya. That they
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quiet now because of tactical reasons, but
also because of an escalating amount of
fear over what Israel will do. If these kids
are executed, Hamas will pay a very, very
high price.
While Hamas may be behind the kid-
nappings, it has been particularly uncom-
fortable politically for Mr. Abbas.
He has forsworn violence but signed
a unity deal with Hamas. He has con-
demned the kidnapping, but official
organs of his Fatah party have published
cartoons praising the kidnappers. And
Mr. Abbas opposes Israels occupation
of the West Bank but is aiding the Israeli
army in its search efforts there.
In the wake of the kidnapping, the
Palestinian Authority froze ongoing reconciliation talks with
Hamas. But Dr. Fine said Abbas is walking a very thin line,
unable to publicly support the Israeli military efforts or Hamas.
Theres no doubt hes in a catastrophic situation, Dr. Fine
said. He was working on the political level cornering Israel [dip-
lomatically], and now Hamas comes up and screws up every-
thing. Hamas backstabbed them.
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he Reform movement posted a prayer.
Chabad asked followers to pledge to do a
mitzvah. The Jewish Federations of North
America set up a web page to express
solidarity.
The disappearance of three Israeli teens in the West
Bank last week is being taken as a call to action unit-
ing many disparate elements of the American Jewish
community.
At synagogues across America spanning the major
denominations, Jews recited psalms or offered spe-
cial prayers for the safe return of the teens, echoing a
prayer rally held Sunday at the Western Wall in Jerusa-
lem. On Monday, demonstrators held a rally opposite
the Israeli consulate in Manhattan.
I have a 16-year-old myself, Steven Levine of
Brooklyn said at the rally. It could have been any of
us. Theyre my brothers, theyre my children. Thats
why Im here.
The missing teens Gilad Shaar and Naftali Fren-
kel, both 16, and Eyal Yifrach, 19 were last seen at a
hitchhiking post near Gush Etzion, a Jewish settlement
bloc in the West Bank. Gilad and Naftali were on their
way home from Mekor Chaim, an in-residence yeshiva
high school in Kfar Etzion run by Rabbi Adin Stein-
saltz. Eyal, who met up with them at the hitchhiking
post, was on his way home from a pre-army yeshiva
program near Hebron.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has
blamed Hamas for kidnapping the teens and said he
was holding the Palestinian Authority responsible.
Among American Jews, the focus has been on sup-
porting the teens families, largely through prayer.
On New Yorks Upper West Side on Monday evening,
the Manhattan Day School organized a prayer vigil that
drew hundreds of people representing a wide range of
local synagogues and organizations.
Chavie Kahn, the school parent and board member
who organized the event, praised Rachel Frenkel, the
mother of one of the missing teens, for the grace she
has displayed under the international media spotlight
as well as for her pioneering work as a yoetzet hal-
achah an Orthodox female religious adviser.
Ms. Kahn said a video of the service would be shared
with the teens families, and she hoped that it would pro-
vide them with some measure of comfort and strength.
The Orthodox Union organized a round-the-clock
virtual vigil for members of OU-affiliated programs
to sign up for 30-minute slots to learn Torah, pray, and
perform mitzvot to merit the safe return of the boys.
The Conservative movements Rabbinical Assembly
released a prayer for the welfare of the teens. It was
written by Rabbi Tamar Elad Appelbaum of Jerusa-
lems Zion congregation.
Do all that must be done so that relief, rescue, and
life may be the lot of the young men, Yaakov Naftali
ben Rahel (Frenkel), Gil-ad Michael ben Bat-Galim
(Shaar) and Eyal ben Iris Teshura (Yifrach), the prayer
says. Act on their behalf, Lord, take up their cause
without delay, and may You grant them life and bless-
ing forevermore.
Meanwhile, a social media campaign with the
hashtag #BringBackOurBoys has gone viral, generating
many tweets and shares. The effort was inspired by the
#BringBackOurGirls online campaign demanding the
return of the some 200 Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped
in April by the Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram.
American Jews mobilized during the long captivity of
Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier who was held by Hamas
for more than five years after a Palestinian attack on his
post along the Israel-Gaza border in June 2006.
In Mr. Shalits case, it became clear relatively early
on that he was alive, and the Israeli government
became the target of a public campaign to negotiate
with Hamas for his release. The government eventu-
ally cut a deal, agreeing to release more than 1,000
Palestinian prisoners in exchange for Shalits freedom
in October 2011.
At this point its not clear who kidnapped the teen-
agers, or even whether they are still alive.
Some commentators have suggested that Israeli poli-
cies are to blame for the kidnapping, noting that two of
the boys studied at a yeshiva in a settlement. But Rabbi
Michael Lerner, editor of the left-wing Tikkun magazine,
condemned efforts to rationalize the kidnapping.
We reject any attempt to imply that somehow these
acts are understandable given the oppressive condi-
tions faced by the perpetrators, he wrote.
The teens, Lerner continued, were not the perpe-
trators or the creators of the Occupation. They were
children doing what their parents had brought them
up to do and to be. JTA WIRE SERVICE
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report.
Demonstrators rally outside the Israeli consulate
in Manhattan on June 16 to express solidarity with
three Israeli teens who were abducted in the West
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the search for three kidnapped Israeli teens, I attended
a group prayer session dedicated to their safe return.
Dozens of women gathered together for a respon-
sive reading of psalms seeking Gods mercy and inter-
vention before the start of our morning Jewish studies
classes. Our voices broke as we prayed for the boys
safe return, though most of us do not know the fami-
lies personally.
I returned home to find my teenage daughter, who
is about the same age as two of the boys and should be
studying for finals, preparing to perform special mitz-
vot to help bring them home. My teenage son returned
home from school and immediately ran off to partici-
pate with the communitys youth in special prayers on
behalf of the captives.
It is amazing how quickly the rhythm of our lives
and our daily schedules has begun to revolve around
the three teens, including one dual Israeli-American
citizen, who were kidnapped by Palestinian terrorists
while trying to get rides home from a junction in Gush
Etzion, a bloc of settlements south of Jerusalem.
Since the abduction of Gilad Shaar, Eyal Yifrach, and
Naftali Frenkel, we are all checking news sources from
the web earlier and more often on our computers at
work or on our phones. Even my younger children
have been coming home from school and turning on
the television news instead of their usual Nickelodeon.
Not that some SpongeBob wouldnt do us all some
good.
I have not slept well since the boys were discovered
kidnapped, and it is clear to me that none of my neigh-
bors and friends here in Israel have either, if the times
stamped on their Facebook posts are any indication.
We ask each other for updates at the supermarket,
at exercise class, at school pickup. We talk about our
fears for the boys around the Shabbat table and at the
makolet, or corner store. We curse their kidnappers
as we pick up the kids from the pool and at the library.
We are living and breathing their captivity while
also going about our daily lives. We simply must.
One of the day-to-day aspects of living here that has
continued is that the residents of my community, in
the northern West Bank halfway between Qalqilya and
Nablus, continue to tremp to hitchhike to get
around.
Some in the Israeli media have been portraying
tremping as a settler phenomenon in which those who
hitchhike can show their ownership over all places in
Israel and their brotherhood with all Israelis. But, in
fact, for most of our kids, tremping simply is a means
of getting from place to place without waiting hours
and hours for buses that run infrequently and do not
always arrive. And it occurs not only in the West Bank
but in many areas of Israels periphery.
After a Shabbat of anxiety over the fate of the three
boys, my oldest daughter left to return to her apart-
ment in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon, where
she is performing her second year of national service.
She tremped to the train station near Rosh Haayin
in central Israel. My husband and I do not allow my
other children to tremp. However, my oldest daughter
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Praying for three boys
whose plight hits close to home
MARCY OSTER is nearly 20; she is an adult who has to make her own deci-
sions. She was not alone in deciding to continue to tremp.
For me the place where the boys were kidnapped also
holds a significant resonance. That same daughter per-
formed her first year of national service in several com-
munities in Gush Etzion. Every Thursday night for a year
she stood at the same junction where the three boys were
abducted as she waited for a ride to get her home. It could
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But right now, the kidnapped teens are the sons of all of
us. We wait, we pray, we cry. We figuratively embrace their
brave mothers, who each have spoken to us through the
media, their faces alight with hope and faith that their sons
will be returned to them.
And we pray that our own children will be safe. I was
on the phone Sunday night with my daughter in Ashkelon
when she heard the Iron Dome anti-missile system intercept
two rockets fired from the Gaza Strip.
I had called her because the Code Red alert app on my
smartphone had sounded and I wanted to make sure that
she had made it to the stairwell of her apartment building,
which is not equipped with a bomb shelter. I put the app on
my phone, which alarms in real time, out of an obsessive
desire to know whether or not she is safe at all times. But it
is clear that we can never be assured of that.
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Racheli Frenkel, center, the mother of kidnapped
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the other abducted teens, Eyal Yifrah and Gilad Shaar,
outside her home in Nof Ayalon on June 17.
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a suburban Tel Aviv park, hundreds gathered to pray for
the imminent rescue of three kidnapped Israeli teenagers.
Rabbis delivered speeches, singer Yonatan Razel per-
formed two pieces based on liturgical invocations of
Gods mercy, and a prayer was recited for the safe return
of Gilad Shaar, Naftali Frenkel and Eyal Yifrach, who were
kidnapped last week while hitchhiking from the West
Bank settlement of Kfar Etzion.
Nearby, the calm warmth of summer in Israel seemed
to take the edge off the anxiety a little. Children played
and babies cried. Adults snapped pictures on their
smartphones.
Such a beautiful day. Such a terrible thing.
Last weeks kidnapping brought Israelis together as few
things do in this divided nation. Thousands joined prayer
vigils across the country, including a massive one at the
Western Wall in Jerusalem.
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At prayer vigils, Israelis gather
in moment of unity over kidnapping
News about the kidnapped teens or the lack of it
is dominating life here, from news reports to conversa-
tions among friends in cafes, prompting a rare thaw in
the political and religious debates that typically over-
shadow Israeli discourse.
Rabbis at the vigil in this Tel Aviv suburb mostly
stayed away from politics, sticking to broad mantras
of solidarity with the prisoners two 16-year-olds and
a 19-year-old and faith in God. The only exception
was Rabbi David Stav, who called for the release of
Jonathan Pollard, the American defense contractor
convicted of spying for Israel in 1985. Pollards case is
controversial in the United States, but the call for his
release is a near-consensus issue in Israel.
Its like we were all kidnapped, said Rabbi Eliezer
Elbaz, the chief rabbi of Givat Shmuel. This did not
happen for nothing. This must awaken us to soul
searching.
Politicians steered clear of divisive statements, too.
The boys belong to all of us, said government minis-
ters from left and right. On Facebook or in speeches,
they repeated safe declarations of zero tolerance for
terror and expressed sympathy for the families, even
refusing to answer questions about what this means
for deteriorating Israeli-Palestinian relations.
On Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netan-
yahu spoke with Palestinian Authority President Mah-
moud Abbas for the first time in a year, insisting the
Palestinian leader help find the abducted teens and
their kidnappers.
Coming from people who just days ago accused each
other of bringing the country to ruin, the constant
declarations of unity seem a little performative. And
the solidarity evident across the country feels fragile,
threatened to be forgotten amid the small inconve-
niences of daily life or swallowed up by the existential
questions that serve as the backdrop to this tragedy.
Radio reports from the Israeli militarys chief of staff
came sandwiched between the latest pop music hits.
Even at the vigil, as Razel came onstage, hands hold-
ing smartphones rose up from the crowd to record the
performance.
Israelis, of course, are experts at this sort of juxtapo-
sition, famous for reboarding buses or casually sipping
espresso in cafes that were recent scenes of terrorist
carnage. Surely this national focus on the teens plight
too will pass and well all soon enough return to the
ideological battles that are the norm here.
Writing on Facebook, Yesh Atid lawmaker Meir
Cohen all but promised as much.
Theres no need for politics, Cohen wrote.
Theres no need to assign guilt. Therell be time for
that later. JTA WIRE SERVICE
Israelis at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv pray for the
release of three kidnapped Jewish teenagers on
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After a very long winter, its time
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Dvar Torah
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Korach
T
his weeks Torah portion is
Korach. Korach is a cousin to
Moses and Aaron who chal-
lenges their leadership. The
rabbis see Korach in a very negative light
and portray his challenge as a selfish
usurpers rebellion.
In Pirkei Avot, the Wisdom of our
Ancestors, we read, A controversy for
heavens sake will have lasting value, but
a controversy not for the sake of heaven
will not endure. What is an example of
a controversy for heavens sake? The
debates of Hillel and Shammai. And what
is an example of a controversy not for the
sake of heaven? The rebellion of Korach
and his associates.
We are people who question, who
argue, who discuss. We dont just accept
things the way they are; we look at the
world and attempt to see what could be,
what are the possibilities. So we often
challenge the status quo. Both Abraham
at Sodom and Gomorrah and Moses at
the Golden Calf challenge God and both
of them win God over to their way of
seeing things. If that is
not a successful debate, I
dont know what is!
Korach, who does not
directly challenge God,
does not come out so
well in his encounter with
Moses and Aaron. The
Biblical text is unequiv-
ocal in its rejection of
Korach. In the end the
earth swallows him and
his followers; it is pretty
clear that they are on the
wrong side of the Divine.
But the rabbinic process
of interpretation is willing
to take the text and stand it on its head to
make a point.
When I was in rabbinical school at the
Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in
the 1990s, an article entitled, Korach,
the First Reconstructionist sought to
view him in a different light. Korach was
portrayed as someone who represented
the democratic ideal, someone who was
willing to challenge the status
quo, someone who wanted to
elevate the people all the
people in holiness and ser-
vice to God.
This is not the typical way
that Korach has been seen by
our tradition, but it is really
no different than the way
Jewish feminists a few years
before had claimed Lilith as
a positive character despite
her having been portrayed
negatively throughout Jewish
history. Lilith was renewed,
reconstructed, and rein-
vented for a new age and a
new perspective.
We live in a time where what worked
Jewishly for our grandparents and per-
haps even for our parents does not neces-
sarily work for us. We have to recommit
ourselves to the traditions that work for
us and we also have to find ways to lay
claim to the parts of our tradition that are
more difficult for us.
We live in a world that is constantly
changing and things we took for granted
10 or 15 years ago are not necessarily true
today. Judaism can provide an anchor for
us in this tumultuous sea of change, but
it too must be reinterpreted as genera-
tions of rabbis have sought to do to keep
Judaism and the Jewish people connected
to one another. A process that was once
slow and unconscious has become one
that must happen in a rapidly changing
world and must be done consciously by
those of us who care deeply about Juda-
ism and its future.
So before we write off Korach as an
example of a bad guy, lets see what it
is that he has to teach us. Bring on the
challenges, because we have a tradition
that is up to facing them, and a rabbin-
ate that is open to speaking to each new
generation of Jews in the language that
they speak. Im willing to listen to Korach
and to learn from his example and to try
and insure that all the people are holy
and that Judaism continues to thrive and
remain vital.
Rabbi
Randall
Mark
Congregation
Shomrei
Torah, Wayne,
Conservative
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Crossword BY DAVID BENKOF
Across
1. Correct papers from Chicagos Ida
Crown Jewish Academy
6. Of ___ (Short film produced by
Chelsea Clinton Mezvinsky)
10. Oy oy oy!
14. Prepare to use jewishmatch.com
15. Stylish mezuzah color
16. Dont Tell ___ (Kander and Ebb song
from Cabaret)
17. Herzl novel about a Jewish Old-New
Country
19. Take down ___ (Jewish mother-in-
laws goal)
20. Masada, geologically
21. Womens ___ (Gloria Steinem cause)
22. Dead Sea quality, to the max
24. Jewish philosopher who once dated
Nazi supporter Martin Heidegger
27. ___vigoda.com (Web site for checking
if a certain actor is still alive)
30. Sound from Davids flock
31. ___, you are Israel (Netanyahu quote
to Einstein - the other one)
32. Aramaic for vows
34. State of the mythical Del Boca Vista
on TVs Seinfeld
35. ___-Israeli relations (important alli-
ance with a massive Asian country)
39. NYC Jewish mob kingpin
43. Theyre frowned upon at shul
44. What the moon starts to do every
Rosh Chodesh
45. Lyric poet Heinrich
46. Throw off, as light from Shabbat
candles
48. Architect of Dallass Meyerson
Symphony Center
50. Schoenberg and Boublils ___
Miserables
51. Israels president during the Six-Day
War
56. On the St. Louis or the Exodus
57. The ___ of Anxiety (Bernstein sym-
phony)
58. Talmudic tractate about one of the
high holidays
62. What the MGM lion does
63. Star of Showtimes Web Therapy
66. He plays Jake on Brooklyn Nine-
Nine
67. Home of Leopold Bloom
68. Jackson who famously called New
York City Hymietown
69. He was second in line of succession
after Hitler
70. Seth Greens 2013-14 TV show
71. Perhaps the most famous Jew (ever)
died on one
Down
1. ___ rock (Marc Bolans genre)
2. Tootsie is a famous Dustin Hoffman
one
3. Some Mossad workers (abbr.)
4. Daughter of Leah
5. Israel-Turkmenistan dir.
6. Joshua of ABCs hit show Scandal
7. Gulf of ___ (Red Sea arm)
8. Edith Stein was a Jewish one who
became a saint in 1998
9. Major Israeli volunteer organization
10. Haman, according to tradition
11. TV show Ancient Jewish Wisdom with
Rabbi Daniel ___
12. Change, as a Knesset bill
13. Bob of Americas Funniest Home
Videos
18. Bone in the part of the arm where
tefillin straps are wrapped
23. Shapiro or Fleischer
25. Fratricide victim of note
26. What Noahs rain did after 40 days
and 40 nights
27. Take ___ on Shabbat
28. Animal used in the kapparot cer-
emony
29. Hairspray character Turnblad por-
trayed by Harvey Fierstein
33. Ira Levins ___ Baby
34. Network of The Simpsons voice
actors Harry Shearer and Hank Azaria
36. He created Oscar and Felix
37. Enjoy Shabbos dinner
38. Littlest shekels
40. What the Danish Jewish community
has done
41. They, not the Jews, were probably
responsible for the Black Death
42. I Am Not Famous Anymore Actor
LaBeouf
47. ___ Cheshvan (nickname for a month
with no holidays)
48. Some polytheists
49. Zeph. alternative
51. Avodah ___ (idolatry)
52. Its found near the charoset on the
seder plate
53. Prepares an Uzi
54. The Lubavitcher Rebbe was one
55. Two-time Academy Award nominee
Winona
59. What -ish means (but not in
Jewish)
60. Hart who married Kitty Carlisle in
1946
61. Fills with reverence
64. Columbia political scientist
Katznelson
65. Federation abbr.
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The Last Sentence
ERIC A. GOLDMAN
I
n Kohelet (Ecclesiastes) 3, we read
that there is a season (zman) and a
time (eyt) for every experience.
In 1954 Pete Seeger took these
words, in part as a protest against nuclear
weapons testing, and adapted them into
a song that the Byrds made into a hit,
Turn, Turn, Turn, a decade later. Some
commentators thought that the season
the zman was a fixed period, and the
eyt was the moment that is appropriate
for an action. Kohelet goes on to lay out
a time for every purpose under heaven,
including a time for silence and a time for
speaking.
Swedish filmmaker Jan Troell just as eas-
ily could have called his film Silence or
Protest instead of The Last Sentence.
At what point do you remain silent and
when do you speak out? Is there a zman
or an eyt that effects how you make
your choices? In America, this issue was
raised when protestors first questioned
Americas role in Vietnam. Some saw these
protests as un-American. For Mr. Troell, a
defining moment for Sweden was during
World War II, when surrounding countries
either allied themselves with Nazi Ger-
many or chose to fight tyranny. The Swed-
ish government chose to close its eyes to
what was taking place in its neighboring
countries and remain neutral. Jan Troells
The Last Sentence is based on the life of
the activist journalist Torgny Segerstedt,
who was editor-in-chief of one of Swe-
dens leading newspapers. He chose not
to be silent.
The 82-year-old Mr. Troell, one of Swe-
dens foremost film directors, first caught
our attention in 1971 with his five-time
Oscar-nominated film The Emigrants,
starring Liv Ullmann and Max von Sydow.
The director has been active since then.
This latest work takes a tough look at his
countrys behavior during the war years, a
topic with which filmmakers across West-
ern Europe seem to be struggling. Just how
much could have been done to thwart the
Nazi advance across Europe? How compli-
ant were governments when their coun-
tries were occupied or threatened by
occupation? To be sure, when Jews think
of Sweden, we think first of the safe haven
it offered during the war. Several Bergen
County residents are alive today because
their families sought refuge in Sweden.
When the evacuation and rescue of Danish
Jewry was undertaken, Sweden was where
they found asylum. And it was Swedish
diplomat Raoul Wallenberg who saved
thousands of Hungarian Jews in Budapest.
Yet some critics point to todays Sweden
as the third most anti-Semitic country in
Europe, after Austria and Germany.
The Last Sentence is not really about
Jews, though a central figure is Jewish
and we get hints of anti-Semitism. It is
about what happens when a democracy,
which has strict constitutional provisions
for freedom of the press, comes under
pressure and struggles with the ques-
tion of whether to limit that freedom. Mr.
Troell investigates those questions with
the biopic of Mr. Segerstedt, beginning
in 1933. With Hitlers rise to power, the
journalist immediately writes a scathing
article, Mr. Hitler is an insult. We learn
that Berlin is enraged and that Hermann
Goring himself sends a threatening tele-
gram to the editor; five days later an even
more caustic editorial appears on the
pages of the Swedish newspaper. From
the beginning, the German-educated Mr.
Segerstedt asserted that Hitler eventually
would take Germany to war, a war that it
would lose.
The film brings us into the war years,
Germanys attack on neighboring Nor-
way, the Soviet Unions alliance and then
its break with Germany, and the pres-
sures placed on the Swedish government
to try and remain neutral. Throughout,
the editor continues writing articles criti-
cal of Germany. Because officials fear that
Mr. Segerstedts articles might be putting
Sweden in danger, the journalist is sum-
moned to meet with King Gustaf V and is
encouraged to stop. When the editor
refuses, the government sends in police
to confiscate several issues of the newspa-
per. At this moment, the real question of
when to speak out and when to be silent
becomes central.
Torgny Segerstedt was out in the open
about his extramarital relationship with
the wife of his publisher, Maja Forssman,
who was Jewish. The fact that Maja was Jew-
ish drew critics to charge him with being
too sympathetic to Jews. This complicated
man was unbothered by scandal and criti-
cism. In bringing Mr. Segerstedts story to
the screen, Mr. Troell chose to focus on the
impact that three women his wife, his
mother, and Maja, his mistress may have
had on his life. Even after they all died they
remained alive in the journalists psyche,
and Mr. Troell forces us to contemplate
their impact.
Jan Troells effort to capture every
moment of Mr. Segerstedts life sometimes
interferes with the films flow. At times, the
movie drags. This is a European film, and
it that shows in the pacing. Mischa Gavr-
jusjovs cinematography is absolutely gor-
geous; there are times when you want to
pause the movie so you can study a spe-
cific image. The performances by Jesper
Christensen as Torgny and Pernilla August
as Maja are exceptional.
The questions posed by this extraordi-
nary filmmaker remain relevant today as
we ponder when is the time to be silent
and when it is time to speak out.
Eric Goldman is a film educator who
teaches and writes about Jewish cinema. He
is also president of N.J.-based Ergo Media, a
distributor of Jewish film.
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and when do you
speak out?
Pernilla August plays Maja Forssman in The Last Sentence. MUSIC BOX FILMS
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Friday
JUNE 20
Shabbat in Jersey City:
Congregation Bnai
Jacob offers its year-
end Friday Night Live!
with nosh, schmooze,
and Shabbat dinner,
beginning at 6:30 p.m.
176 West Side Ave. (201)
435-5725 or bnaijacobjc.
org.
Shabbat in Teaneck:
The Jewish Center of
Teaneck has Carlebach-
style davening, 7 p.m. 70
Sterling Place. (201) 833-
0515 or www.jcot.org.
Saturday
JUNE 21
Rabbi Lawrence Zierler
Shabbat in Teaneck: The
Jewish Center of Teaneck
offers services at 9 a.m.;
then Rabbi Lawrence
Zierler discusses Lean In
and Lean Out: Exploring
the Role of Women in
Society Today With and
Beyond the Stardom
of Sheryl Sandberg as
part of the Three Cs
Cholent, Cugel, and
Conversation. Kinder
Shul for 3- to 8-year-olds,
while parents attend
services, 10:30-11:45. 70
Sterling Place. (201) 833-
0515 or www.jcot.org.
Dr . Daniel Rynhold
Shabbat in Teaneck:
Daniel Rynhold discusses
Halakhic Man or
Superman? A Jewish
Response to Nietzsche
at Congregation Rinat
Yisrael, 6:55 p.m. Dr.
Rynhold is an associate
professor of modern
Jewish philosophy at the
Bernard Revel Graduate
School of Jewish Studies
at Yeshiva University
and the author of three
books on philosophy
and religion. 389 W.
Englewood Ave. (201)
837-2795.
Sunday
JUNE 22
NCSY breakfast in
Teaneck: New Jersey
NCSY hosts its annual
Bergen County
Scholarship Breakfast at
the Horn home, 9 a.m.
Honorees are Beth and
David Berman, Rachel
and Paul Glasser, Leah
and Jacob Stromer, and
Sherri and Chaim
Szafranski. NCSY is the
OUs international youth
movement. 465
Winthrop Road. All
welcome. (201) 862-
0250, office@njncsy.com,
or newjersey.ncsy.org.
Circus in Washington
Township: The Kelly
Miller Circus comes to
the Bergen County YJCC
for two shows, noon and
4 p.m. Rain or shine. It
features elephants, tigers,
camels, ponies, as well
as aerialists, acrobats,
and clowns, all under the
big top. Advance sales
benefit the YJCC. 605
Pascack Road. Wendy
Fox, (201) 666-6610.
Hagit Avnon
Concert in Rockleigh:
Hagit Avnon, an Israeli-
born dancer and singer,
performs for the 12th
annual Myrna and Alan
Cohen Spring Concert
at the Jewish Home at
Rockleigh, 2:30 p.m. 10
Link Drive. (201) 784-
1414.
Monday
JUNE 23
Senior program in
Wayne: The Chabad
Center of Passaic
County continues its
Smile on Seniors
program at the center
with a presentation by
a representative from
St. Josephs Hospital,
11:30 a.m. Light brunch.
$5. 194 Ratzer Road.
(973) 694-6274 or
Chanig@optonline.net.
Wednesday
JUNE 25
Ohel trip: Lubavitch on
the Palisades in Tenafly
commemorates the 20th
yahrzeit (memorial) of
the Lubavitcher rebbe,
Rabbi Menachem
Mendel Schneerson,
with a trip to the rebbes
ohel (gravesite). Light
dinner. Buses leave
from the Beth Aharon
Forem Chabad House,
11 Harold St. in Tenafly,
6 p.m. Reservations,
201) 871-1152, Rabbi@
Chabadlubavitch.org, or
www.chabadlubavitch.
org/oheltrip.
In New York
Wednesday
JUNE 25
Film in NYC: A free eight-
session summer film
series, Close Encounters
of the Spielberg Kind,
at the Museum of
Jewish Heritage A
Living Memorial to the
Holocaust, begins with
Raiders of the Lost
Ark starring Harrison
Ford and Karen Allen,
6:30 p.m. Series runs
through August 13. Raffle
prizes will be given away
at each screening. 36
Battery Place. (646) 437-
4202 or www.mjhnyc.
org/spielberg.
Thursday
JUNE 26
Job networking for
accountants: The
Orthodox Union Job
Board and Crown Heights
Young Entrepreneurs
host Networking for
Accountants at the OU
Yiddish arts fair
to enliven Teaneck
The Forward offers a multigenerational Yiddish arts
fair, with music, poetry, and film on Sunday, June 29,
from 6-8 p.m., at the Teaneck General Store. The fair
will include poetry readings in Yiddish and English
by several Yiddish poets, a spirited presentation of
klezmer and Yiddish musical classics, and a screening
of A Kiss in Jerusalem, a film about Yosl Birshteyn.
The General Store is at 502A Cedar Lane. For infor-
mation, call (201) 530-5046 or visit Teaneckgeneral-
store.com.
Dennis DeYoung
brings Styx music
to bergenPAC
The Bergen Performance
Arts Center in Engle-
wood presents Dennis
DeYoung: The Music of
Styx on Thursday, July
10, at 8 p.m. For tickets,
call the box office at (201)
227 1030, go to www.
ticketmaster.com or www.
bergenpac.org.
Temple Israel and JCC of Ridgewood
launches its fifth season of Summer Music
Fridays on June 27 with performances by
Irene Bressler on harp, Artie Bressler on
woodwinds, guest artist Annette Lieb on flute, and
Tamara Reps Freeman on violin. Doors open at 7:15
p.m.; the recital is at 7:30 in the sanctuary; services and
a festive oneg follow. 475 Grove St. (201) 444-9320.
JUNE
27
Job Board International
Headquarters, 5:30-
7:30 p.m. Featuring
Speed Networking with
round-robin seating. Not
a job fair. Registration
required. 11 Broadway,
14th floor, Manhattan.
(212) 563-4000 or www.
oujobs.org.
Singles
Saturday
JUNE 21
Shabbat games in
Teaneck: West of
the Hudson, a 20s-
to early 40s young
professionals group
hosted by the Jewish
Center of Teaneck, meets
there to play games
including Bananagrams,
Rummikub, Fluxx, and
chess; includes snacks
and schmoozing, 4 p.m.
70 Sterling Place. west.
huds@gmail.com.
Friday
JUNE 27
Shabbat weekend:
Modern Orthodox/
Machmir singles, 22-
35, are welcome to a
Shabbaton in Teaneck/
Bergenfield. Weekend
includes guest speaker
Shani Ratzker, author of
Finding Your Bashert
and The Survival Guide
to Shidduchim, shalosh
seudot, and musical
Havdalah. $120; includes
all meals. Hosted by RZ
Ruchlamer and Dr. Shani
Ratzker. (201) 522-4776,
rzr18k@aol.com.
Sunday
JUNE 29
Water park: West of
the Hudson, the young
professionals groups
affiliated with the Jewish
Center of Teaneck is
going to Camelbeach
Water Park. $36 with
special childrens
pricing available. Sign
up at www.eventbrite.
com/e/camelbeach-
waterpark-fun-day-
tickets-1798899557, or
email west.huds@gmail.
com.
Dance party in Clifton:
North Jersey Jewish
Singles Meetup, a group
sponsored by the Clifton
Jewish Center, hosts a
Jewish singles dinner
and dance, 6-9:30 p.m.
Light dinner buffet, ice
breakers, followed by
baby boomers dance
music with DJ Allan
Bolles. $20. 18 Delaware
St. (973) 772-3131 or
www.meetup.com.
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Night at New York museums
For the first time, Lower Manhattan will
turn 13 of the citys museums into a sum-
mer cultural destination as part of this
years River To River Festival, which runs
through June 29.
On Tuesday, June 24, 13 participating
museums and historic sites will offer free
admission and will stay open from 4 to 8
p.m. Patrons can hop from museum to
museum; all are within walking distance.
Visitors of all ages can spend a sum-
mer evening immersed in New York Citys
history, explore what makes the United
States unique, discover new cultures and
heritages, take a walking tour of the area,
or stop for refreshments, including restau-
rants offering special Night at the Muse-
ums discounts.
Participating museums and historical
sites include the Museum of Jewish Heri-
tage A Living Memorial to the Holocaust.
Guided tours of the museums core exhibi-
tion about Jewish heritage, the Holocaust,
and Jewish renewal, will begin on the hour
from 4 to 7 p.m. The Anne Frank Center
USA, a partner of the Anne Frank House,
uses the diary and spirit of Anne Frank
as tools to advance her legacy. The Cen-
ter opens a new exhibition on the evening
of June 24: Anne Frank: A Family Photo
Album, featuring more than 70 family
photos, many of which rarely have been
seen in public. The National September 11
Memorial Museum and Wall Street Walks
require advance reservation.
Participating institutions will issue a
special Night at the Museums Passport for
the event, available at each venue that eve-
ning. It will provide a map of the area and
information. The brochure also will give
visitors special discounts, valid through
August 31, on museum admission and
other services depending upon the loca-
tion. Restaurant discounts also are avail-
able. More information is at www.NightAt-
TheMuseums.org.
Concert in Rockleigh opens series
Exodus Supreme is the first group per-
forming for the Leonora Messer 2014
Summer Concert Series outdoors at
the Jewish Home at Rockleigh on Tues-
day, June 24, at 6:30 p.m.
The series continues July 9, August
14 and 26, and September 16.
The series is funded by a gift from
Linda and Harold Ganz, members of
Leonora Messers family. JHR is at 10
Link Drive in Rockleigh.
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Shirley Greenbaum
Shirley Greenbaum, 92, of Brooklyn
died on May 12 at Maimonides Hospital
in Brooklyn.
Born in Paterson, she was a registered
nurse for several New York hospitals.
Predeceased by a niece, Sharon Lafer,
she is survived by nieces and nephews,
Noreen Rak, Madeline Cohen, Dr.
Robert Harelick, and Michael Harelick.
Arrangements were by Jewish
Memorial Chapel, Clifton.
Samuel Kohn
Samuel Kohn of Fair Lawn, formerly of
Elmwood Park and New Haven, Conn.,
died on June 13.
A Holocaust survivor, he came to
America in 1949. He was a longtime
member of the Elmwood Park Jewish
Center and the Eastside Social Center in
Fair Lawn
He is survived by his wife of 61 years,
Celina, ne Markowicz, children,
Jeffrey of New York City and Sharon
Jacobs (David) of Wayne, and two
grandchildren.
Donations can be sent to the Yad
Vashem Holocaust Museum, Jerusalem.
Arrangements were by Louis Suburban
Chapel, Fair Lawn.
Phyllis Kurland
Phyllis R. Kurland, 77, of Glen Rock died
on June 16.
She was a Hunter College graduate
and was a real estate agent at Weichert
Realty in Glen Rock.
She is survived by her husband of 53
years, Bob, children, Jeffrey (Cheryl) of
Oakland, and Orin (Michelle Acosta) of
New York City; siblings, Joseph Hollday
(Nanci) of Los Angeles, and Deborah
Brown of New York City, and four
grandchildren.
Donations can be sent to the Glen
Rock Public Library. Arrangements were
by Louis Suburban Chapel, Fair Lawn.
Craig Liman
Craig A. Liman, 43, of Jersey City,
formerly of Fair Lawn, died on June 17.
He is survived by his parents, Peter
Liman of Glen Rock and Virginia Liman
of Atlanta, Ga.; his stepmother, Regina
Feinstein Liman; his sister, Erin Liman
(Marc Levine); his former wife, Elianne
Liman; his stepsister, Bari Feinstein; his
children, Evan and Lindsey Liman; his
partner, Mary Roman, and her sons.
Mr. Liman graduated from Johnson
& Wales and Florida International
universities and worked as a sales
manager with a consultant company,
International Profit Associates in
Chicago, Ill.
Donations can be made to Hunter
Synagogue, Hunter, N.Y. Arrangements
were by Louis Suburban Chapel,
Fair Lawn.
Obituaries
In the past, when military operations
have failed to rescue hostages, Israel has
turned to releasing Palestinian prisoners
in return for captured Israeli soldiers or
civilians.
In October 2011, Israel released more than
1,000 prisoners in exchange for Gilad Shalit,
an Israeli soldier Hamas captured in 2006.
Last year, Israel agreed to release more than
100 Palestinian prisoners as a precondition
to entering peace talks with the Palestinians.
But opposition to such exchanges has
intensified among right-wing Knesset
members, who view prisoner exchanges
as fundamentally unjust and strategically
misguided. Days before the kidnapping, a
bill proposed by Ayelet Shaked of the Jew-
ish Home party that would make it more
difficult to release terrorists as part of such
exchanges passed a preliminary reading in
the Knesset.
After the kidnapping, Jewish Homes
chairman, Naftali Bennett, doubled down
on his partys opposition to prisoner
exchanges. On Monday, he told Israeli Chan-
nel 2 that over the past 30 years, the fact
that weve freed about 10,000 terrorists
over the years got the other side used to the
idea that if you kidnap, its worth it because
you receive 1,000 terrorists, 100 terrorists.
Should Israel prove unable to find the
teens, public pressure to free the hostages
could lead to a prisoner swap, even if it hurts
Israeli strategic interests. Thats according to
Hillel Frisch, an expert on Palestinian poli-
tics at Bar-Ilan University,
I feel bad for these three boys, but this
whole attack shows the bankruptcy of this
policy of prisoner releases, Dr. Frisch said.
[Terrorists] have an incentive. Its like play-
ing the lotto but knowing youre going to
win. All they need is to do something like
this every eight or 10 years. JTA WIRE SERVICE
Teens
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BRIEFS
Israeli Defense Ministry gets new
$289 million budget increase
The budget dispute between the Israeli defense and finance minis-
tries was settled Monday as the Finance Ministry partially granted
the Defense Ministrys request for a budget increase, appropriating
an additional 1 billion shekels ($289 million).
The Defense Ministry had originally sought a budget increase of
NIS 2.7 billion ($781 million), sparking a months-long dispute with
the Finance Ministry. A defense official said Monday that the appro-
priated funds would allow the defense establishment to meet the
budgetary challenges it faces in 2014.
One of the first issues to be addressed is the renewal of the Israeli
Air Forces training flights. Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon and IDF
Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz ordered the suspension of all
nonessential and training air force flights on June 1, citing the bud-
get crunch.
In exchange for the budget increase, the defense ministry agreed
to vacate a military base adjacent to the Sde Dov Airport in Tel Aviv,
freeing up prime real estate in the city and allowing the Israel Land
Authority to develop the area. JNS.ORG
Jack Lew to make first trip to Israel
as U.S. Treasury Secretary
U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Jack Lew will make his first visit to
Israel in his new position next week to discuss economic coopera-
tion between the two countries.
The Shabbat-observant Lew is on a tour of the Middle East, visit-
ing the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia before coming to
Israel next week as part of the U.S.-Israel Joint Economic Develop-
ment Group.
The JEDG is an annual bilateral meeting between the United States
and Israel to discuss how to improve economic ties between the two
countries as well as with the global economy.
Lew will meet with his Israeli counterpart, Finance Minister Yair
Lapid, to discuss how to grow business ties and promote innovation
and energy initiatives, the Israeli Finance Ministry said. U.S. Ambas-
sador to Israel Daniel Shapiro and Bank of Israel head Karnit Flug
will also attend. JNS.ORG
International community condemns
kidnapping of three teenagers
World leaders have expressed outrage and deep concern over the
abduction of the three Israeli teens last Thursday.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, in a statement released on Sun-
day, said he strongly condemns the kidnapping and called for the
teens quick and safe return home.
Kerry added that the U.S. government would continue to seek
details on the parties responsible for this despicable terrorist act,
although many indications point to Hamas involvement.
One of the abducted teens, Naftali Frenkel, holds a dual Ameri-
can-Israeli citizenship. A delegation of 40 French members of par-
liament, who were touring Israel, visited with the Frenkel family on
Monday.
The kidnapping shows more than anything else Hamass inten-
tions, said French MP Meir Habib, the head of the delegation, the
Jerusalem Post reported. It is important that this message is relayed
in France, too: Peace cannot be made with terrorists.
Other Israeli allies, including Canada, Great Britain, and Spain,
also condemned the kidnappings. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-
moon called for the teens immediate release and for both Israel and
the Palestinians to exercise restraint. JNS.ORG
Israel sending 50 executives
on Africa investment tour
The Israeli government is sending 50 executives on a tour of Africa
in an effort to enlarge the Jewish states business presence in that
region during an era of a growing Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions
movement in other parts of the world.
Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman wants Israel to make deals in
economically growing countries for companies such as defense con-
tractor Elbit Systems Ltd., irrigation equipment maker Netafim Ltd.,
and billionaire Idan Ofers Israel Chemicals Ltd., which has already
invested in a $642 million potash mining project in Ethiopia.
Israels sub-Saharan exports amounted to $1.4 billion last year,
nearly four times the exports to the region in 2003, reported Busi-
ness Week.
When you look at the map, you see growth in the sub-Saharan
countries that is even greater than in Asia and that offers a great deal
of opportunity for Israeli companies, said Shauli Katznelson, direc-
tor of the economic division at the Israel Institute for Export and
International Cooperation in Tel Aviv. JNS.ORG
Netanyahu and president-elect Rivlin
seek to put differences aside
Israeli president-elect Reuven Rivlin and Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu met privately June 11 to discuss their future work plans.
The two have been bitter rivals despite being members of the
same party, Likud. But as prime minister and president, their rela-
tionship cannot help but change.
I have no bad blood, Rivlin said Tuesday. I dont have any bad
feelings about anyone.
Rivlins associates reported that June 11 marked the first meeting
between Rivlin and Netanyahu in a year and a half.
We have a lot of work ahead of us for the sake of the citizens
of Israel, Netanyahu said. We have been through many things
together, and I am sure that we will both be wise enough to put aside
the bad things and behave responsibly for the sake of the future of
the state of Israel. JNS.ORG
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NETTIE FAITH MARTZ zl
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bat Yosef Ephraim v Chaviva Bruriah
June 21, 2002 February 15, 2013
On June 21, our beautiful daughter and sister,
Nettie Faith Martz, would have become a Bat
Mitzvah. Netties life was ended too early, and
our beautiful Nettie passed away at the young
age of 10 years old.
Nettie was the center of our family and truly
defned the love, happiness, and daily meaning
of life for our family. We are indescribably
heartbroken without Nettie in our lives. Nettie
was a most incredible blessing to our family and
we thank g-d for the most beautiful 10 years of
life we were given with her. It is deeply painful
to continue to live life without Nettie. She was
an incredible inspiration to all of us and brought
endless joy, love, and pride to our entire family.
Nettie understood and demonstrated what hard
work and perseverance meant in every aspect of
her life. Nettie brought a tremendous sense of
meaning, love, joy, and hope for our entire family
and community, and while she was only 10 years
old when she passed away, Nettie was truly a role
model for us all.
Nettie was beloved by all who knew her.
Nettie was an incredible sister, daughter,
granddaughter, niece, cousin, and best friend
to many, including her outstanding nurses and
therapists, teachers, and countless friends. Each
one of us was blessed to have Nettie as part of
their life.
While Nettie did not live to the age of her Bat
Mitzvah, she was truly always a Bat Mitzvah
throughout her precious and beautiful life.
May the inspirational lessons of life, love,
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The loving family of Nettie Faith Martz
Joseph Martz & Cindy Balsam Martz;
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in our loving hearts forever.
Shirley Greenbaum
Shirley Greenbaum, 92, of Brooklyn
died on May 12 at Maimonides Hospital
in Brooklyn.
Born in Paterson, she was a registered
nurse for several New York hospitals.
Predeceased by a niece, Sharon Lafer,
she is survived by nieces and nephews,
Noreen Rak, Madeline Cohen, Dr.
Robert Harelick, and Michael Harelick.
Arrangements were by Jewish
Memorial Chapel, Clifton.
Samuel Kohn
Samuel Kohn of Fair Lawn, formerly of
Elmwood Park and New Haven, Conn.,
died on June 13.
A Holocaust survivor, he came to
America in 1949. He was a longtime
member of the Elmwood Park Jewish
Center and the Eastside Social Center in
Fair Lawn
He is survived by his wife of 61 years,
Celina, ne Markowicz, children,
Jeffrey of New York City and Sharon
Jacobs (David) of Wayne, and two
grandchildren.
Donations can be sent to the Yad
Vashem Holocaust Museum, Jerusalem.
Arrangements were by Louis Suburban
Chapel, Fair Lawn.
Phyllis Kurland
Phyllis R. Kurland, 77, of Glen Rock died
on June 16.
She was a Hunter College graduate
and was a real estate agent at Weichert
Realty in Glen Rock.
She is survived by her husband of 53
years, Bob, children, Jeffrey (Cheryl) of
Oakland, and Orin (Michelle Acosta) of
New York City; siblings, Joseph Hollday
(Nanci) of Los Angeles, and Deborah
Brown of New York City, and four
grandchildren.
Donations can be sent to the Glen
Rock Public Library. Arrangements were
by Louis Suburban Chapel, Fair Lawn.
Craig Liman
Craig A. Liman, 43, of Jersey City,
formerly of Fair Lawn, died on June 17.
He is survived by his parents, Peter
Liman of Glen Rock and Virginia Liman
of Atlanta, Ga.; his stepmother, Regina
Feinstein Liman; his sister, Erin Liman
(Marc Levine); his former wife, Elianne
Liman; his stepsister, Bari Feinstein; his
children, Evan and Lindsey Liman; his
partner, Mary Roman, and her sons.
Mr. Liman graduated from Johnson
& Wales and Florida International
universities and worked as a sales
manager with a consultant company,
International Profit Associates in
Chicago, Ill.
Donations can be made to Hunter
Synagogue, Hunter, N.Y. Arrangements
were by Louis Suburban Chapel,
Fair Lawn.
Obituaries
Yair Shoham
Yair Shoham, 72, of Fort Lee died on June 4.
Born in Israel, he was an engineer in the
communications industry.
He is survived by his wife, Ronit, ne Janay, children,
Liron of Brooklyn, Sigal of Washington, D.C., and Amit
of Oakland, Calif., and one grandchild.
Arrangements were by Eden Memorial Chapels in
Fort Lee.
Louis Siegel
Louis Siegel, 94, of Fort Lee, formerly of Englewood Cliffs,
died on June 16.
Born in New Bedford, Mass., he served in the air forces
during World War II and Korea, rising to the rank of
lieutenant colonel.
Cousins survive him. Arrangements were by Eden
Memorial Chapels in Fort Lee.
Obituaries are prepared with information
provided by funeral homes. Correcting errors is
the responsibility of the funeral home.
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Carol Sims
Carol Sims, 76, of Ridgewood died on June 12 following
a three-year battle with cancer.
She was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Barnard
College and earned a masters from Columbia
University.
A brother, Benjamin, and a niece, Eve Weiss,
survive her.
Arrangements were by Robert Schoems Menorah
Chapel, Paramus.
Ann Vogelman
Ann Vogelman, 94, of Jersey City died on June 13.
Born in Jersey City, she was a buyer for the U.S. Navy
base in Bayonne before retiring and was a member of
Temple Beth-El in Jersey City.
Predeceased by a brother, Irving Vogelman, she is
survived by a sister, Molly Heitner. She was also an
aunt and great-aunt.
Arrangements were by Eden Memorial Chapels in
Fort Lee.
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Sprawling Ranch. Great 1 acre property.
TENAFLY
Sleek young East Hill construction.
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Updated 5 BR Colonial. Prime loc. $995K
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Spacious ex 1 BR. Doorman building.
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GREENPOINT
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2 BR/2 BTH penthouse. Full-service bldg. $6K/MO
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Broker/Owner
Miron Properties NY
Ruth Miron-Schleider
Broker/Owner
Miron Properties NJ
NJ: T: 201.266.8555 M: 201.906.6024
NY: T: 212.888.6250 M: 917.576.0776
Remarkable Service. Exceptional Results.
Friedberg welcomes Michael Paisner
Marlyn Friedberg, bro-
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in Boston. He is a retired VP and con-
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and technologies for personal care
and pharmaceutical markets. He is an
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Chemists and a recog-
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Mr. Paisner is quali-
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rehabbing. He is a member of NJMLS,
RealSource Association of Realtors,
and the New Jersey and National Asso-
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in the office, (201) 666-0777; by cell,
(201) 819-3481; or by e-mail, mpaisner@
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Michael Paisner
First Commerce Bank celebrates
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Officials of First Commerce Bank prepare to cut the ribbon at the ceremony
for the new Englewood branch.
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Beautiful Contemporary. Picturesque cul-de-sac.
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ENGLEWOOD
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Miron Properties NY
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Miron Properties NJ
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NY: T: 212.888.6250 M: 917.576.0776
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